Bob CollinsA website with instructions and help on moving to Canada crashed at the height of returns on Election Night. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
MPR’s best and brightest are providing live updates on the election. I’ll be contributing occasional observations below, too. But we’d like your analysis and thoughts in the comments section to further our conversation. Read more →
This has become an Election Day tradition in the last few years. People vote, then visit the grave of Susan B.Anthony. Read more →
Some things are bigger than what we’ve been told for the last few years is the biggest thing. Carrying on, for example. Read more →
‘The farmer wave is a cultural institution woven into the very fabric of ‘Iowa nice’ that helps rural and small-town folk casually remind each other that they really do care,’ a columnist writes. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals today ruled that you cannot lose your driver’s license for refusing to submit to a urine test for DUI if a police officer says it’s a crime not to.
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On Tuesday, Massachusetts voters will go to the polls to decide whether to legalize recreational use of marijuana. Read more →
Occasional NPR political commentator Cokie Roberts put herself in the line of fire this morning when she made a joke about birth control and Latino influence in tomorrow’s election.
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Donald Trump’s broadside against Somali immigrants in Minnesota is reminiscent of a similar attack he delivered a few months ago in Maine, an attack that prompted the decent people of Maine to rally around their fellow citizens. Read more →
Ryan Larson, an innocent man falsely portrayed as the likely killer of a Cold Spring police officer, gets his day in court this week.
He’s suing news organizations who were far too quick to identify him as a suspect in the 2012 slaying of officer Tom Decker, who was shot to death after he’d made a wellness check on Larson. Read more →
This picture, taken at Sunday’s rally for Donald Trump at Sun Country Airlines, is racing across the Internet Read more →
Much has been written during and since the World Series about baseball’s victories and their connection to people who are now gone — usually old-timers… grandfathers, fathers etc.
But only Anthony Castrovince, a writer for MLB.com, has written about a different twist. Baseball’s connection to a child who was never born. Read more →
A few weeks ago in this space, we discussed whether “seat belt shaming” is an appropriate response in the wake of car crashes in which someone is killed. Some of you debated whether there’s “shaming” going on at all. A fair enough point. So we call your attention to a story from WCCO today in Read more →
The notion that an indictment is coming in the FBI probe of the Clinton Foundation likely won’t evaporate even though the reporter who invented the assertion has said he was wrong. Read more →