Bob Collins
The Twin Cities missed out on a Boston designer’s idea to let people offer some positivity after this month’s election, but now it’s migrating to online. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Housing prices nationally have hit record highs, although that’s not the case in Minneapolis, one of the 20 cities making up the index.
The average national home price is now 0.1% above the June 2006 price, although the index does not account for inflation. Read more →
There are only a handful of survivors of the USS Arizona from the attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago next week. And his family says Donald Stratton still jumps when there’s a loud noise, owing to the bomb that scored a direct hit on his battleship. Read more →
Trump is appointing Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., as the new secretary of health and human services, the perfect person, Vox says, to roll back health care coverage, an issue Democrats were too afraid to defend in the recent election.
Price is one of the few Republicans in Congress who actually has proposed health care legislation in the post-Obamacare world. Read more →
Dealing with the crowds at the airport during the Thanksgiving travel period isn’t a lot of fun, unless you’re the type who likes to watch reunions at the baggage claim. It can be a good tonic for what ails you.
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Filmmaker Joshua Seftel told a CBS Sunday Morning audience today that when he was young, the other kids threw pennies at him because he was Jewish.
That’s one of the reasons he created the documentary series, ‘The Secret Life of Muslims’, he says. Read more →
At national and local conventions, you never heard his name uttered; he rarely appeared in person to schmooze with the powerbrokers of the DFL.
I often wondered why he was in the DFL at all. Read more →
For the record, NewsCut has smashed traffic records for the year so far and the last two months have been the most popular months in the history of the thing. But, we’re also aware that blogs aren’t the “bright shiny object” that so hypnotizes the experts.
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One of the most impressive aspects of this collaboration between high school coaches to allow a young man to get the thrill of scoring a touchdown in a football game yesterday is that the game was early and close when he did it. Read more →
We were only a few hours into Black Friday today when the first of the ‘brawling shoppers’ videos hit Twitter.
It’s become an annual tradition, too: Fighting over the goods.
We should stop watching them, writer Luke O’Neil writes. Read more →
Minnesota Vikings fans awoke today with a fresh reminder that nobody wins the Super Bowl in week five.
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Either Lee Johnson is lying about his decision to wear an Obama costume with a noose around its neck or he’s clueless about the history of racism in America. Read more →
A Rochester area woman is planning to do her part to ease hunger in her area by borrowing the idea of Little Free Libraries and using it for food instead.
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Eventually, every tradition has to die and when President Obama pardoned a turkey at Thanksgiving today, one did.
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Vi Hart, like most other homo sapiens, has a theory about the election, which she features in her latest video. We are divided in the United States, of course, but it’s mostly by age, the Internet math star calculates. Read more →