Bob CollinsFrance, bless their Franco hearts, has a new law that gives employees the right to ignore business emails after hours, but only if the company they work for has more than 50 employees. “But it is born of the enlightened view that it is actually beneficial for people not to work all the time, and Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
We all probably have different definitions of luxury but for a kid like me who grew up having to trudge through the woods across the street to get to the “hockey pond,” a backyard rink certainly qualifies.
So we salivate just a bit at what Shawn Carlon has done at his home in Maple Grove. Read more →
Rep. Rick Becker, R-Bismarck, says gun owners could still get a permit — and undergo the required training — if they want to. Read more →
The logic of people who think rules and signs don’t apply to them could take up an entire semester of a psychology course.
The ice at Minnehaha Falls is providing a laboratory for this inspection. Read more →
A few days before a Nobles County farmer and his would-be bride were to fly off to the Cayman Islands for a destination wedding, he presented her with an agreement protecting the assets of his farm. She signed the deal but when the marriage hit the skids, said she signed it under duress of the pending wedding, for which everyone had bought airfare and lodging.
Today, the Minnesota Court of Appeals agreed. Read more →
L.L. Bean heiress Linda Bean donated $60,000 to a PAC supporting Donald Trump, an amount over the legal limit, according to the Federal Election Commission. But even if it wasn’t, there’s a fair chance that someone would be urging a boycott of the Maine retailer anyway.
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(Video link) Lajos Delej was a composer and pianist of great promise, the Boston Globe says. He was also in love. So when the Nazis invaded Hungary, Pauline Herzek was sent to Auschwitz (where her father and stepmother were murdered) and Delej, who had entered the ghetto to try to rescue her, was never seen Read more →
At least for most us suburbanites, the steady march of chain-store America has overwhelmed whatever defense small business could mount. Businesswise, at least, if you’ve seen one town, you’ve seen them all.
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The power of self esteem is regularly and increasingly mocked in U.S. culture, perhaps one of the reasons the arts has an increasingly difficult time gaining a bigger foothold in the education system. Maybe Kenya knows something we should. Read more →
MPR’s Tom Weber has been in Ely, doing some legwork for an upcoming broadcast and found someone else doing some legwork. She’s Betty Kunstel, a member of Ely Memorial High School’s cheerleader squad. She’s also the only member of Ely Memorial High School’s cheerleader squad.
Given the current state of affairs, we’ll take a heartwarming story anywhere we can find it, and Steve Hartman’s latest effort certainly fits the bill.
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This video suggests to us that we’ve entered another era when people are running across a major American airport in search of safety.
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The Salvation Army has reversed a decades-old policy and will no longer bar people who’ve been drinking from its shelter in La Crosse, the La Crosse Tribune reports. Read more →
Former baseball star Curt Schilling is probably going to be ushered into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown when the results of voting by baseball writers is revealed on Jan. 18.
But Schilling, a conservative’s conservative, is outraged that some writers are leaving him off their ballot and he thinks it’s because of his support for Donald Trump. Read more →
Here’s a pro tip from upstate New York: If you’re arrested for DUI and you want to keep it on the down low, don’t buy up all the newspapers in the area carrying your mugshot. Read more →