Bob Collins
In a year in which a large number of Democrats are enchanted with one of the oldest presidential candidates it has ever had, the issue of age and fitness is apparently limited to one race for the Minnesota House of Representatives.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The lowlight of last Friday’s MinnRoast has already been documented here (and nowhere else, for some odd reason), but sponsoring MinnPost has released the highlight of its fundraisers: A skit featuring the sons of Gov. Mark Dayton — they own the Bachelor Farmer restaurant in St. Paul — trying to help the old-timer break into the restaurant business. Read more →
How could it be that a plane is no longer registered? Easy. Stop at any big or small airport, and there’s a fair chance you’ll find people who don’t know they have to renew their plane’s registration, because up until a few years ago, they didn’t have to.
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People are attaching love notes to a Cottonwood tree, that’s stood sentry by the side of Minnesota Highway 7/U.S. Highway 59 longer than almost every Minnesotan has lived. But it will not live much longer, apparently.
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Of the many fine baseball moves that Twins general manager Terry Ryan has made over the years, none may exceed washing the team’s hands of its affiliation with the New Britain Rock Cats minor league team at the end of the 2014 season. Read more →
We loved the summer temperatures over the last few days as much as the next person, but there was still a feeling that it wasn’t right. It’s not summer in Minnesota; it’s spring… a predictable, slow-moving, tantalizing progression to summer glory.
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Worthington High School football coach Brad Grimmius is the latest youth sports coach who’s had it with parents. Read more →
Three days before it was set to perform in Raleigh, N.C.., Pearl Jam has become the latest musical act to cancel a show in the state because of a new state law whose aim was to wipe out attempts in Charlotte to provide anti-discrimination protections to LGBT people. Read more →
Every year on Patriots Day, they run the Boston Marathon. And every year at this time, the individual winners are almost a footnote to the traditions of running.
This year was no exception, particular the long tradition of stopping to ‘visit’ with the young women of Wellesley College.
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As we’ve posted numerous times, we’re not generally a big fan of TV reporters standing in water to reveal the drama of a flood, but we make an exception today for a reporter from KTRK in Houston, where severe flooding has hit. Read more →
It’s not often we see a congressional race in Minnesota get as negative as the one that’s underway in the 2nd District to replace retiring Rep. John Kline. Read more →
Generally, there’s not a lot of buzz at high school tournament time when the tournament is about speech, which is why today’s post from the Minnesota State High School League’s Tom Leighton is such a great read for a Monday morning. Read more →
Here’s an idea. If you’re uncomfortable with someone speaking Arabic on an airplane, maybe you should get off. Read more →
The Twins and the company that runs the concessions at Target Field have bused in workers from Chicago and Milwaukee to fill the jobs at the concession stands. Read more →
Let the record show that when the Minnesota veterans of World War II and the Korean War walked into a restaurant on their Honor Flight to visit the World War II and Korean War memorial on Saturday, the people in the restaurant knew just what to do. Read more →