Bob CollinsWhat do you get the stepfather who has everything? Adoption papers.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Nobody was hurt when a SpaceX rocket exploded at Cape Canaveral today, so we are officially placing the video in our ‘when disasters are beautiful’ category. Read more →
I have shared my love for Mary Norris, aka “The Comma Queen”, a number of times in this space, and today shall pose no disruption to the proper order of the universe. Her latest video, on location at a beach, encompass all things wonderful about The New Yorker, for whom — or, perhaps, which — Read more →
One of every seven Minnesota drivers has a DWI. A new state reports reveals the demographics of Minnesota DWIs and shows big differences in county conviction rates. Read more →
It was a pretty neat scene in Faribault yesterday when a replica of the Vietnam War memorial wall made its way from Owatonna to the city. Read more →
There’s a reason Minnesota is a transportation backwater and the duct-tape approach filling the vacuum of a failed government is a primary one.
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The only thing missing from an otherwise perfect day in Minnesota was another story from the official police chief of NewsCut, Kenyon’s Lee Sjolander.
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Some Packers fans might be gloating a bit much about the season-ending injury to Vikings QB Teddy Bridgewater. Read more →
The football player is Travis Rudolph, a wide receiver. The kid is Bo Paske, a young man who probably reminds you of the kids you might’ve mistreated or ignored when you were his age. Read more →
In 2014, Mary Cocchiarella gave Donald Driggs $2,400 for the first-month’s rent and security deposit for an apartment in Spring Lake Park. But he told her he still had some work to do on the apartment and she wouldn’t be able to move in for another day. Another day — and many days after that — came and went and still she couldn’t move in.
Is she covered by a Minnesota law offering protections for ‘residential tenants’? Read more →
There’s not a lot of great news in the fifth annual Oxford University Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism survey. The most favored sources of news for people are the media least likely to provide in-depth information and, in many cases, serious news.
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In Milwaukee, the kids at St. Coletta Day School got to go on a field trip on the first day of the school year. They went to court to see a classmate get adopted by her foster mother. Read more →
You must have to be a patient and forgiving sort to live near Roseau, on Minnesota’s northern border. People there have to put up with things we non-border people take for granted. The freedom to move around America, for example.
It took an around-the-country trip by a California teacher to tell me something about my adopted state that I didn’t know. There’s an airport in Minnesota on which a runway spans two countries, surrounded by some unwelcoming feds. Read more →
Everything is ready to go for another school year at Spring Lake Park High School.
The desks are arranged, the flag is up, and the note that tells authorities the condition of students in the classroom if there’s a lockdown is in a handy spot. Read more →
Cato Berntsen Larsen, 20, did what any friend would do when his pal dropped his phone in the outhouse. He jumped in to get it. Read more →