Bob Collins
No matter how bad you might think things are, we’ve still got little kids and cranky old men.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Here’s your daily dose of sweetness, which has been mighty hard to find lately. That’s why I had to reach back to October to find one. In Benicia, Calif., Jourdan Duncan, 18, has to walk to his job packing boxes. “My car broke down, so I figured I had no other way to work,” he Read more →
In modern times, Obama trails only Bill Clinton for popularity at this stage of their presidencies. Obama is also tied with Ronald Reagan.
Not mentioned in the poll analysis why we tend to like presidents more when they’re about to leave office. Read more →
The founder of the team fired the coach who inserted the 19-year-old in to play against the kids.
‘I could zoom right in and see the facial hair,” parent Kevin Stockwell said. ‘You know most 13 year olds are starting to get facial hair. This gentleman had facial hair and had arm tattoos.’
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The reaction to this year’s presidential election allows us to see the difference between Republicans and Democrats, men and women.
In the aftermath of President Obama’s two wins, men headed to the gun stores to stock up on weapons and ammunition.
After President-elect Trump’s victory, women have headed to their gynecologists, to stock up on birth control.
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The four seasons in Minnesota are spring, summer, fall, and hyperbole. Read more →
We can pretty well guess what NPR ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen’s next column is going to be about. It’s going to be about whether NPR should have given seven minutes of national radio time on Thursday evening to Richard Spencer, a white nationalist who coined the term ‘alt-right’. Read more →
If there’s anyone who deserved a good retirement, it’s Buddy. And that’s what he’s getting today at age 30.
Buddy is a therapy horse with We Can Ride, a Minnetonka therapeutic horseback riding program for people with special needs. Read more →
In the wake of a decision by a federal judge today, here’s a pro tip for attending a baseball game: Stop looking at your phone during the action. Read more →
There have been plenty of ballyhooed high school athletes in Minnesota over the years and Grace White should be one of them.
This week she signed a letter of intent to play Division I basketball with the University of Denver, becoming the first Red Lake reservation athlete to play an NCAA Division I sport.
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Just as sure as the sun will rise in the east, the baseball awards season will lead to people calling for baseball writers to get out of the business of voting on postseason awards. Read more →
It’s unclear if Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., intended for her snapshot of the meeting of the House Republican Caucus, of which she’s chair, to go viral today, but it has. Read more →
Northfield council members, except one, affirmed the college town’s “commitment to be a safe, inclusive and welcoming community for all.” Read more →
If the election 2016 was an opportunity for a comprehensive discussion of health care insurance, the nation failed badly. Instead, it was a debate over a word and a general concept — Obamacare. You’re either for it or you’re against it.
That’s too bad because there are people — Republicans and Democrats and everyone in between — who are suffering under the byzantine health insurance system, just as they suffered under it in the pre-Obamacare days. Read more →
Instead of complaining, journalists should be bringing value to the conversations that now occur without us, a journalist argues. Read more →