Bob Collins
We tried to tell you, Chicago Cubs fans. The minute you won a World Series, you ceased to matter. You’re just another sports fan of a big money, winning team. You’re no big deal if you don’t suffer. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Dick and Donna Mueller, who started the cheese curd craze at the fair decades ago, want to retire and hand the booth over to younger members of the family. The State Fair says ‘no’. Read more →
Thanks to Reddit, this sign from Glendale, Wis., is racing around the Internet, confirmation that a lot of people have a problem with a few parents — the ones who take their kids’ baseball games too seriously. Read more →
A University of Illinois at Chicago economics professor says Minnesota’s sports woes can be traced to high taxes.
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It’s quite a sight once a year when Israelis stop what they’re doing for two minutes. Today is that day. It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more →
Lionel Lopez broke into a Willmar motel room in November 2015 while its occupant — a co-worker — was taking a shower. Lopez swiped a cellphone and a wallet.
Is that burglary?
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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be getting a steady diet of commencement speeches given by bigshots paid tens of thousands of dollars to blather on in the interest of getting the school a little publicity.
Here’s a shorter one that didn’t even need the whole 140 characters. Read more →
Sgt. Sylvia Maurstad must have made some enemies in the Roseau area over the years.
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Because he has Down Syndrome, Alec Penney, of South Fargo, doesn’t get to play much on the Fargo South High School baseball team. He’s never gotten a chance to hit. Read more →
There were 70 members when the St. Peter Last Man’s Club was formed, setting aside a 1973 bottle of bourbon to be opened when there were only two left.
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Speed limits in construction zones are some of the most universally ignored laws in Minnesota. Read more →
Isabella Nicola Cabrera wants to play the violin. That’s difficult when you’re born with no left hand and a severely deformed forearm. A music teacher at her school had tried to build her a jury-rigged prosthetic, but it was never going to allow her to do what a violinist really needs to do.
So it’s a good thing that the first project idea that a group of students at George Mason University needed in order to graduate failed.
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is about out of fuel and pretty soon, the space agency will lose its ability to maneuver it. It’ll crash into Saturn. But before that happens, it took a last look at a barely visible dot between Saturn’s rings. Read more →
It’s not enough to want to volunteer to represent Minnesota as a volunteer during Super Bowl Week. You’ll have to surrender some dignity first. Read more →
Tereasa Payne was supposed to play her piccolo in the orchestra for “The Lion King” on Broadway last night. Instead she flew to Sioux Falls, S.D., because her old band director is retiring. Read more →