Bob Collins
It could have been a cringe worthy moment when Patti Smith lost the words at the weekend Nobel Prize gala, but it turned out to be a rather perfect moment of grace. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The White House’s video touting the website where people can shop for health insurance is a little like John Belushi’s last attempt to rally his beaten frat brothers in Animal House.
But as a “bit”, it’s got legs. Read more →
Rescuers plucked the swan out of the St. Croix river and got it to a wildlife rescue center, but it was too late.
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‘The new brand will increase recognition, build trust (especially around cyber security), and change the story about what it means to work for and do business with the State of Minnesota,’ MnDOT said on its website. Read more →
It was a moment in time captured by a random photographer. Saya Tomioka and her boyfriend, Griffin Madden, shared a kiss in Times Square after they’d emerged from ‘The Book of Mormon.’
The photographer showed them the picture and then dashed off.
A random moment became meaningful, however, when the Oakland Ghost Ship fire claimed the life of Madden.
Having just worked my way through Scott Berg’s long biography of Charles Lindbergh, and being a huge fan of John Glenn since I was a boy, Bill Flanagan’s commentary on Glenn (and Lindbergh) this morning was particularly riveting. Read more →
Anyone who’s ever covered the DFL knows that it can’t get along. More than a few DFL chairpeople have decided that there are better ways to get the pain of a sharp stick in the eye than trying to herd the diverse interests in the party into a cohesive group with an actual strategy.
Still, it was a touch surprising — and a little entertaining, we’re ashamed to say — to read the blowtorch that long-time Minnesota pol John Gunyou took to the party today in his Star Tribune op-ed. Read more →
It appears suckers are now being born at a greater rate than every minute. Read more →
Why has NFL football become less popular?
Search us. But maybe the fact football fans are insufferable has something to do with it.
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‘Live your life without regret,’ the self-help charlatans advise in their absurd and simplistic way.
Better? Give yourself a break for being a kid.
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In addition to an inability to merge and unwillingness to take the last piece of anything, picking up after their dogs is a stain on the image of Minnesotans.
The kids at Emerson Elementary in Minneapolis have had it with you, Minnesotans. Read more →
He had a war record, looks, was a national hero, had experience, and was still married to his high school sweetheart.
By all accounts, he was the perfect candidate, and just what voters say they want. But voters fib. What they say they want isn’t what they’ll vote for.
The percentage of people making more than their parents dropped to 58 percent by 1992 from 92 percent in 1970. By 2014, it stood at 50.2 percent. Read more →
If you want to understand the true horror of gun violence, talk to a pediatric surgeon like John Densmore, a pediatric surgeon at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.
Between November 2012 and August 2016 he’s treated 12 gunshot victims. Children. The hospital as a whole has treated 200. Children. Read more →
Cindy Stowell, a science content developer from Austin, Texas, died this week, months after she taped her appearance in August, promising to donate any winnings to cancer research.
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