Bob CollinsLast month Austin Roberts, of Spencer, Iowa, was wrestling in a high school championship match when he collapsed. The wrestler, who hadn’t been defeated all season, died a few hours later.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Nancy YangIt’s been a good week for Minnesota viral videos. Not one but two videos involving Minnesotans have racked up thousands of views online. Read more →
Experts on suicide have generally succeeded in tamping down public talk about suicide by the nation’s school children. But Dan and Wanda Lienemann of Waukee, Iowa think there’s a better way to prevent the kind of thing that happened to their 18-year-old son. Read more →
The creeping — and creepy — intrusion of business and government on people’s personal Twitter musings has taken a step forward in Wisconsin where a high school player has been suspended for using profanity in a tweet on her personal account. Read more →
Paul TostoThe Northern Sun Conference admits its refs got it wrong at the end of a University of Sioux Falls-Winona State hoops game on Friday. Read more →
You are not alone in your misery. Read more →
While reading the obituary today of Lucas David Ronnei of Victoria, Minn., we realized where the young man got the courage in his struggle against depression and addiction. It was in his DNA, inherited from a family that wrote one of the most powerful obituaries we’ve ever read.
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The giant snow sculpture in New Brighton has been completed. The Bartz Brothers build a sculpture on their front yard every winter. It looked like this a couple of days ago. The brothers invited people to guess what it would be. If you guessed “octopus” you made a good guess. People who visit this year’s Read more →
Once Minnesota becomes the place where it’s not cold enough to do stuff, what’s the point of being Minnesota? Read more →
The whereabouts and reasons for the disappearance of a Lakeville pilot will remain a mystery. Read more →
Of course the airline has gone no-frills, so you’ll pay extra for baggage, including carry on, but any time a carrier takes on the ‘big airlines’ — now down to a very few — it’s worth watching whether other airlines try to match the fares in some way. Read more →
Because it’s Friday, it’s January, and it’s a surfing pug, that’s why.
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Wired profiles photographers Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber, a husband-and-wife team from Minneapolis that stumbled on the sport a few years ago.
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Lake Elmo, a city famous for its insistence to remain a pre-sprawl town, has taken a big club to sprawl with its refusal to allow bus rapid-transit stations in its community.
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When should someone abandon the job he’s paid to do — documenting events, in this case — and put the camera down to pitch in to help? Read more →