Bob Collins
PBS has found an unlikely ally in its fight to save its funding from a plan to send it to the military: a military general.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
There was a time — a long time ago — when packages wouldn’t be delivered without a signature. If you weren’t home, you made a deal with the neighbors and left a note for the delivery person. Back then, there weren’t people like this woman driving around neighborhoods, as she did this week in St. Paul’s Como Park neighborhood, stalking the delivery truck. Read more →
A construction company in La Crosse, Wis., is taking down employment billboards that featured a #NoSnowflakes hashtag, but not because of pressure. Read more →
Nicholas Ramirez, of Worthington, Minn., a high school sophomore and a fan of Green Day, experienced the kind of moment the other night that most people can only dream about. Read more →
There’s nothing better at the end of the day than coming home to a wild turkey on your couch. Insert obvious joke here. Read more →
President Trump’s travel ban may not be having any effect on the threat of terrorism but it’s doing a number on the arts. Read more →
Halima Aden, of St. Cloud, is a 19-year-old model who recently was walking the runways of New York and Milan. But she’s back in St. Cloud cleaning hospital rooms now. Read more →
Gov. Mark Dayton has signed a bill that protects people when their cars are used by drunk drivers. The authorities help themselves to property when crimes are committed — it’s called “forfeiture” and even when when someone convicted of DUI uses a vehicle without permission, the innocent owner can lose it. In 2015, nearly 7,000 Read more →
It is opening day in the baseball season for the local nine, a day which reveals that hope does not spring eternal in the human breast after all. The Twins will be a terrible team again after losing 103 games last year and not doing much in the off-season.
But it’s still baseball, the grass is still green, and it’s a game in which you don’t forget people from your past. Read more →
There was nothing really new in CBS On the Road correspondent Steve Hartman’s piece this week on Chris Ingraham, who moved to Red Lake County after declaring it the worst place to live in America.
But it’s another chance to see the high falutin’ East Coast media pay attention to us, even if it is to profile a high falutin’ East Coast media guy living the good life in flyover country. Read more →
She was Beth Delano, 90 a Northwood, N.D., woman who has been going to UND men’s hockey games since 1947, the Grand Forks Herald says.
Her hockey fame, however, was more recent. The big scoreboard video caught her drinking a beer during a break in the action, to the roaring approval of the crowd.
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The 2016 decision to close Marine, Withrow, and Oak Park elementary schools came just a year after voters in the district approved a levy and bond to build a new school. But a new school superintendent said the demographics of ISD 834 dictated the closings, which have split the communities the district serves. Read more →
Gregory Watson was so unhappy with the ‘C’ he received from teacher Sharon Waite, he started working to advance the subject of his paper: The proposed 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that hadn’t garnered enough states’ approval to be added.
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Golf is struggling and an incident over the weekend explains why. Golf, and its fans, are insufferable. Read more →
What happened in St. Paul on Sunday is a metaphor for the state of government in Minnesota. Because it can’t get out of its own way, it doesn’t work.
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