Bob CollinsMinnesota’s NBA team this season has now beaten the best team in the league, and lost to the worst team (Philadelphia) in the league. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
In Minnesota, you have to be at least 16 to drive a car but if the St. Louis County Board gets its way, a 12-year-old will be able to drive on the highway and any other road as long as s(he) is on an ATV. Read more →
Baseball long ago figured out if you feed reporters, they’ll write just about anything you want them to, and miss the story you don’t want them to write. Read more →
It was two years ago this week that a fan dressed as the Cleveland Indians’ “Chief Wahoo” confronted protesters outside Progressive Field in Cleveland, where the Indians were playing the first game of the year. Peter Pattakos took the picture of Robert Roche of the American Indian Education Center and fan Pedro Rodriguez, and encouraged Read more →
A nine year old girl is upsetting her neighbors because she dares to write about the news. Read more →
The Tennessee Senate is moving along a bill that would make the Bible the official book of Tennessee.
It now needs only the signature of the state’s governor to become law. Read more →
Veteran actor Kosmo Esplan, 8, has been a big fan of Carol Burnett for more than half his life. The Northfield boy has never had stage fright, he says. But he’s worried that someday he might. So he wrote a letter to Burnett looking for a little advice, Northfield News reports. And he got it. Read more →
The New York Times expertly describes in its editorial today on how Wisconsin did its part to suppress voting. Read more →
Continuing today’s theme of suburbia on the march, the defining corn maze of the Twin Cities is nearing the end, at least in its present location Read more →
What’s happening in Lake Elmo is happening all over America. People move near a small airport and, inevitably, they begin to object to alleged property value declines caused by the airport. Read more →
A family came to the United States 18 years ago in search of a better life and they found it.
They’ve found something else here; something that goes unnoticed in today’s political atmosphere. They found open arms. Read more →
‘This accident could have been much, much worse,’ the police said. Both the officer and the texter survived. Read more →
A trial would have at least been a venue to question and cross-examine everyone involved in the shooting. Read more →
Under Minnesota law, people who are hurt by uninsured drivers can be covered under the Minnesota Automobile Assigned Claims Plan. But today, the Court of Appeals said Paek Saengkeo, injured in a 2010 crash, isn’t entitled to any benefit because his brother, who lived with him, had co-signed the loan for his then-girlfriend.
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Diego Saul Rayna was pretty proud of the work he and his construction friends did on a building in Vancouver, so — as tradition dictates — he hung the flag of his country on the top.
The building was the Trump tower in Vancouver. Read more →