Bob Collins
Aside from the intriguing marketing history, what we liked best about the deep dive into General Mills from CBS Sunday Morning today was the notion that people use protective gloves to handle old boxes of Wheaties. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The irony? Franken is the one politician in Minnesota who isn’t obviously trying to get a bigger gig.
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The former Minneapolis mayor says he’s not picking sides yet, nor does he owe anything to the results of the Minnesota caucuses, which overwhelmingly supported Bernie Sanders over Clinton. Read more →
Can burning down a village save it?
Humboldt High School in St. Paul is going to test the theory. It’s dropping its varsity football program to try to save it. Read more →
Texas A&M, like a lot of universities, is a pretty big place in which individuals can get lost in the system.
So it was a big deal this week when the university learned that Jim Brewer, 57, wasn’t going to live long enough to see his daughter graduate. Read more →
A World War II veteran’s “dream trip” to the Canadian Rockies is on after a months-long snafu that made it impossible for the war veteran and long-time U.S. government employee to get back into the country. Read more →
If you’re lucky, when you die they’ll say something like what Conan O’Brien said last night, hours after he found out that comedian Garry Shandling died. Read more →
Wonkblog points to a study from Notre Dame in theorizing that when employers aren’t able to use data, negative stereotypes dictate hiring decisions.
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Southeastern Minnesota just barely got into the picture astronaut Jeff Williams took during an overnight pass of the International Space Station. Read more →
A truck exploded in Callaway, hours after it collided with a train. Read more →
Golf has been in a decline for years now but from the sound of an article in the Mankato Free Press today, the patrons of Fort Ridgely golf course never saw the Department of Natural Resources’ announcement this week coming. Read more →
Unquestionably, there are problems in schools and problems between teachers and students and parents. It’s important that those get discussed in the public sphere.
But it’s also easy to let the coverage push aside other realities that are also important to acknowledge. There are pretty great kids, pretty great teachers, and pretty great parents in the state’s schools. Read more →
There’s risk everywhere. How do you decide which is worthy of your taking cover? Read more →
In the world of nickle and diming, there’s not much more outrageous than charging customers to take their money. Read more →
At a dinner in Argentina last night, President Barack Obama had that look on his face that every man of a certain age has when someone asks him to dance. Read more →