Bob CollinsSo this is what it’s come to, eh?
Americans dropping to their knees to beg the leader of another country to run for president of the United States. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
NPR, which was the one of the first major media companies to embrace podcasting, now seems afraid of it. Read more →
If there’s a red-flag word in any headline that should keep people from getting too excited, it’s the word ‘may.’
Still, this headline can still make a jaw or two drop, we learned this afternoon. Read more →
If your workplace is anything like the World Headquarters of NewsCut, you have two kinds and only two kinds of colleagues: Those that stand up at their desks and those who sit down. Read more →
The Chicago White Sox this week blew a giant hole in the image of baseball, fathers, and sons when a player retired rather than accept the team’s edict that his son couldn’t hang out in the locker room where he even has his own locker.
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Stillwater is reconsidering the question of whether we have the freedom to park our car on the front lawn if that’s what we want to do. Read more →
There’s so much more to the recently-concluded Minnesota State High School hockey tournament than hockey hair, and couple of filmmakers have perfectly captured the essence of late winter in the state of hockey. Read more →
These are often academic questions in the political arena, but as the state’s residents grow older, “how we die” will merit significant conversations we’re unable to have now.
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An activities director of a senior center wanted to figure out how to get her hockey-loving clients to a hockey game, so the Chicago Blackhawks brought a hockey game to her, including cheerleaders, mascots, and the announcer. Read more →
It shouldn’t be taking this long to overturn an Army decision denying women who served as WASPs the dignity of an Arlington National Cemetery burial. Read more →
Paul TostoHennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman says his office, not a grand jury, will make the final call on whether to press charges against Minneapolis police officers in the November shooting of Jamar Clark. That’s a victory for protesters. Read more →
Times are apparently pretty good in Charlton, Mass., a small town in south central Massachusetts where a roving band of rappers is scaring kids. Read more →
The Jolly Green Giant is now officially dead after a good run in the Minnesota River Valley. Read more →
St. Paul is not a pedestrian-friendly city. An average of one pedestrian is struck by a vehicle every other day.
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Nobody knows how to sell you a box of cereal like General Mills, whose various ad campaigns for Cheerios have tapped into social change and, at least to some degree, propelled it.
General Mills Canada this month, a Cheerios-branded campaign focused on another species: bees.
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