Bob Collins
If there’s a more despicable disease, I’m unaware of it. Perhaps that’s why you don’t hear a lot of politicians criticizing a huge increase in Alzheimer’s research.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Somewhere in the Maplewood area is a couple who could’ve taken off with a pouch full of cash, the week’s receipts for a hair stylist who had put it on the roof of his car in a parking lot and got distracted taking care of his young son. Read more →
Not sure about you, but I didn’t quit my job this week so that I could help someone I don’t know.
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The better story right now is the one Wemple has been pedaling all week: the New York Times appears to have been far more incompetent in its work than the federal authorities were in theirs. Read more →
There’s a new poll out with questions surrounding the Middle East and the so-called “war on terror.” But before we talk about them, please answer these questions. Read more →
These are either the best of times or the worst of times for older men with white beards. For the ‘get off my lawn’ crowd, it’s probably the latter. Read more →
It was a pretty good week to be a member of the Grand Rapids, Minn., police department. When they pulled people over, they got hugs for a change.
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The biggest question in Minneapolis politics these days is ‘What didn’t the Minneapolis School Board know and when didn’t it know it?’
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We are required by law, apparently, to throw some Star Wars content at you.
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Ryan Clancy got a lovely note from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in the mail today. Clancy’s business, Bounce Milwaukee, received a ‘best places to work’ award from a business publication. Read more →
It’s not this picture that has gotten Larycia Alaine Hawkins in trouble with her employer, Wheaton College in Illinois. The private liberal arts school insists it has no opinion on the hijab she’s wearing to show her solidarity with people of other faiths.
Rather, it’s these words she wrote on Facebook that the evangelical Christian school has a problem with. Read more →
The latest is the widely-reported assertion that Tashfeen Malik talked openly on social media about violent jihad. That’s led to criticism that the U.S. intelligence services failed to pick up even the most public warnings that she and her husband were a threat. Read more →
Ouch. How badly do you want to see Adele when she kicks off her tour this summer in St. Paul? On StubHub this morning, asking prices were starting at about $550 and running to $9,000. Each. Read more →
True, in the eyes of the law, Martin Shkreli is still an innocent man.
But still, $750 was the price of our sympathy.
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We pause today to salute ex-Tonka Toys executive Lloyd Laumann, who died recently at 78. He is survived by millions of old men with happy memories of growing up with yellow cranes, trucks and bulldozers. Read more →