Bob CollinsAngela Hermann started working as an usher at Canterbury Park when she was 17 and most recently has been a substitute announcer and analyst. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
We don’t know for sure if Ida Keeling’s goal in life is to make us feel like slugs but if it is, it’s working splendidly.
Ida is 100 years old and set a record at the Penn Relays over the weekend for the 100 meter race in the 100-and-up category, finishing the race in a minute and 17 seconds, just a 1 minute and 10 seconds off Usain Bolt’s 100-meter world record.
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Minneapolis took more than a year to investigate an officer’s complaint of age discrimination, then claimed that the statute of limitations ran out on a suit filed under the state’s Human Rights Act. Read more →
What propels people to living in Minnesota’s Northwest Angle, that 1783 mistake that put a chunk of Canada in Minnesota? Read more →
How much ice is too much ice in a Starbucks iced beverage?
It’ll be up to a court to decide. Someone is suing the chain because its drinks are almost half ice.
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Al Hams, who started a few music careers when he owned Al’s Music in St. Cloud, isn’t allowed to forget Vietnam. Not anymore, anyway.
He’s got Parkinson’s Disease, believed to be linked to the widespread use of the Agent Orange defoliant he was exposed to during the year he served in Vietnam.
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Things that get old: Soldiers
Things that never get old: Videos of old soldiers on their Honor Flight to the World War II and Korean War monuments in Washington.
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The presidential parody skits in the last White House Correspondents Dinner in a president’s term in office are usually pretty good, certainly better than the stand-up routines that comedians usually miss with at the same dinner. Read more →
The way history is taught in many public schools, kids will never learn about the Vietnam War, which is a shame because they’ll never learn about people like Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest who was the face of opposition to a war that killed more than 50,000 Americans. Read more →
This is the proper technique for releasing an eagle back to the wild.
Eyes to the sky. Feet wide apart. Tongue out. Read more →
This might be the biggest news since it was revealed Lassie was a boy. Read more →
Q: What do you call it when a cast member from The West Wing takes over a job in the actual West Wing?
A: A good start. Read more →
We like nature as long as nature is pretty and cuddly and cute. But, let me tell you, it’s an eagle-eat-cat world out there and that’s upsetting people, apparently.
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St. Paul’s skyways can be pretty scary. They’re often abandoned and the various nooks and crannies can be a perfect hiding spot for the occasional ne’er-do-well. And that’s in the middle of the afternoon.
So is closing a few of them at 10 p.m. that bad of an idea?
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A Wisconsin case illuminates the other half of the growing texting-while-driving problem: the people with whom the drivers are texting. Read more →