Bob Collins
Could airports require a new checkpoint just to get into the buildings now? Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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We know that President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands inside the Palace of the Revolution during their meeting today because we’ve got the picture to prove it. Read more →
Even people who are only casually familiar with the Constitution know that for the most part, police need a search warrant to enter a home. But what if the person they’re looking for is at someone else’s home?
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A commenter on the Minnesota State Patrol’s Facebook page asks a very good question today: Who hits a bald eagle and just drives away? Read more →
Reports of the decline of small-town Minnesota are premature, a professor from the University of Minnesota Morris concludes. Read more →
A math professor in Ontario says there’s a significant bias in refereeing in the National Hockey League. English players get whistled for penalties at a greater rate than French-speaking players. Read more →
No doubt, plenty of men in the country will wonder “what’s the big deal?” in the aftermath of the comments of the CEO of a tennis tournament in California over the weekend. Here’s a hint, fellas. That’s the big deal. Check your calendar before continuing. “I think the WTA [Women’s Tennis Association] … You know, Read more →
With Saturday’s championship games in high school basketball, the winter high school sports season and tournament season is over. Read more →
It is, of course, way too early to know the cause of the crash of a Dubai airliner in Russia last night, but the final moments of the flight will provide some information. The flight recorders have been recovered and it shouldn’t be too difficult for investigators to come up with a theory pretty quickly. Read more →
Fifty-three years ago today, a poor man who had been charged with breaking into a pool hall had his conviction overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Clarence Earl Gideon didn’t have a lawyer when he was tried. Read more →
People call it March Madness, but one supposes for players who have to endure probing questions from sportswriters, it’s March Idiocy. Read more →
It probably shouldn’t take an act of Congress to get the U.S. Government to stop illegally taking money from wounded soldiers, but apparently it’s going to. Read more →
I’m a sucker for stories from the bus, usually tweets from people in real-time, trying to get somewhere on a Metro Transit vehicle.
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Hayley Orlowski is full of hope that she can do something about the number of military veterans who take their own life every day, Read more →