Bob CollinsCharlotte Bleistein has every reason in the world — the biggest being that she’s 102 — to skip her yoga class. She doesn’t. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
More than two years ago, Marc Welzant disappeared from his residential group home in Brainerd. Months of searching didn’t find the man who had Prader-Willi syndrome that leads to physical, mental and behavioral problems.
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Last week, all 12 schools in the Big Ten sent teams to the Big Ten Network ‘League of Legends’ tournament, thanks to scholarships provided by the company that makes the game.
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Many women in Minneapolis have little chance of having the luxury of walking down the street without being accosted in some fashion by a man. So ‘Lindsey’, who started Cards Against Harassment, expanded the campaign by drawing messages on Hennepin Avenue on Wednesday night. The message to men wasn’t complicated: don’t do that; respect women. Read more →
The danger of the news business is it can desensitize us to the news.
If you see something often enough, the shock of it wears away until it seems like something normal. When things are normal, we tend not to pay much attention to it. Read more →
We’re going to guess that if a picture of Hitler ends up in a children’s color-by-number book, it’s not an accident. Someone made a decision to put it there. Read more →
When Lois Yess died at 91, her neighbor DeeAnn Britton, made the same promise to her that Lois had made to her father to keep the southern Minnesota building standing. Last year she bought the pink schoolhouse and has been selling items out of it to raise money to keep her promise. Read more →
The defense raises the obvious question: Isolated from significant discipline, what’s to prevent a cop in St. Paul from doing the same thing in the future? Read more →
A Lakeville South high school teen has successfully tested a rule that had prevented her from trying out for the boy’s tennis team. Read more →
There had to be a lot of pressure on Zachary, Aaron, Nigel, and Nick Wade of Ohio. They are quadruplets and, presumably, none of them wanted to be the one who wasn’t accepted by an Ivy League school. Read more →
If you expected Bekah and Derrick Quirin to give up on the Appalachian Trail after a few days, forget it Read more →
Nicole LaPoint argued discrimination after an orthodontist pulled a job offer to her after learning she was two months pregnant and hoped to take maternity time. The orthodontist argued the amount of time off was the concern. Justices today said it’s only discrimination under state law if LaPoint could prove she lost the job because she was pregnant. Read more →
It must have been embarrassing for the school system in Pittsburg, Kansas when a group of young journalists did the job the adults who run the system should’ve done. Read more →
The kids at Forestview Middle School’s STEM team in Baxter, Minn., were getting pretty antsy to see what would happen if they launched a balloon. But bad weather through February kept it on terra firma.
There was pressure involved, with the temperatures warming in lake country. Read more →
Watch it while you can because this online ad for Pepsi isn’t going to be around long. Read more →