Bob CollinsA teacher at Washburn High in Minneapolis was threated with being fired because she stopped to monitor the arrest of an African American man by Minneapolis police and then was arrested for obstructing justice. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Jimmy Greene’s and Nelba Márquez-Greene’s Facebook post shows that they relive their day of horror every day there’s another one for someone else. Read more →
Back in 2012, things were going pretty well for Kevin Burkart of Prior Lake to hit his goal of jumping out of an airplane 300 times in one day to help raise awareness and money for research of Parkinson’s Disease, an affliction that affects his dad.
Then he went snowmobiling and got into a horrific accident, scuttling the idea Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that housing inspectors in a Twin Cities suburb can search rental housing units for code violations even if there’s no suspicion that any exist. Read more →
The Twins don’t appear too interesting in making the same mistake the Minnesota Timberwolves made when they slashed ticket prices to get people to show up at the arena. Read more →
A sample of some of the nation’s editorials in the wake of Sunday morning’s mass killings in Orlando:
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I’ve been off the grid for a few days and am just back in town, so there’s not a lot of insight I’m able to offer in the wake of the largest mass murder in U.S. history, except that I expect the public discourse over the next few days will follow a well-traveled template. So Read more →
The growing chorus against passion increasingly seems like the logical follow-up to the campaign against education in the form of anti-intellectualism and ‘elitism.’ Read more →
In this state where 1 in every 7 drivers has a DWI conviction, the crime is a big joke to even the people talking a good game about stopping drunk driving. Read more →
If you are a bike rider, you probably know the frustration of pulling up to an intersection where pressure plates or other gizmos force a light to turn green for cars. Bikes? Too light. So a cyclist has to hit the ‘walk’ button.
So MnDOT’s experiment in Northfield is pretty significant. Read more →
Some people might see this video only as a phone ad. I prefer to see it as an ad for one of the greatest communities in Minnesota: Montevideo.
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Asked by Jimmy Fallon if he’s watched election coverage, President Barack Obama said he’s been watching his new favorite show, ‘Orange Is Not the New Black.’
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Angie Nichols, the former director of the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Services Office, is suing the Board of Regents, claiming the school retaliated against her through months of discrimination based on her sexual orientation and disability.
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The world needs more dog stories. So here’s a dog story, world. Read more →
Mikhael Teryohin, an engineer at a software company in Fargo, is worried about people across the border and the threat they represent to the hard-working people in his area. They could, for example, steal their jobs. Read more →