Bob Collins
If you listen closely, perhaps you can hear the beginning of significant pushback by sports fans against the local sports teams which are making it costlier to buy their product. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The tension in the early part of the interview today comes from a theme that runs through his tremendous book. That setting your ideals and values aside — or even turning your back on them — is just the way politics is. And, besides, once you’re in office, you can walk things back and apply your ideals and values.
To do otherwise seems simple enough, but that’s also naive.
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Photographer Arthur Nazaryan documents life in this photo essay. Read more →
At St. Cloud State University, the athletic department needs a shot in the arm, so the hockey program will turn to a tried and true method to boost Minnesotans’ interest: beer. Read more →
On its 2,000 mile length, the Mississippi River has only one live theater, at least it did until Grand Rapids fell out of love with the Grand Rapids Showboat. The city is swapping land with the Blandin Paper Company so the showboat lost its lease at Syndicate Park.
But you know how theater people are.
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We might well find out one of these days whether Facebook can force the U.S. to do something it doesn’t want to do: Let a refugee into the country it doesn’t think should be allowed in. Read more →
Paul TostoIt looked like it would be a typical TV news stand-up. But reporter Adam Sallet got way more than that in reporting on a bank robbery in Rochester. Read more →
Eric RinghamIt’s a cultural and political Rorschach test: When you look at the face of the actor Mandy Patinkin, whom do you see? Saul Berenson from “Homeland,” or Inigo Montoya from “The Princess Bride”? Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has been quoting the youthful Montoya on the campaign trail. Now the grown-up Saul has begun to object. Read more →
A German church tries to tie Christmas to “The Force Awakens.” Read more →
It’s a thin line to shaming a victim who, in most cases, is dead.
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These presidential campaigns have a way of working themselves out via the will of the people without the intervention of the St. Paul City Council, which today will vote on a resolution aimed at Trump.
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The FAA is treating the drones as aircraft, which they technically are. And it’s treating the operators as a pilots, which they technically aren’t. There are no requirements for training operators of drones, nor do they have to be licensed. Not yet, anyway. Read more →
Pete Rose may not yet realize that he’s a compulsive liar who can play a lot of roles for his audience, but a sympathetic figure is not one of them. Read more →
It says something — although we’re not sure exactly what — that when Serena Williams became the first woman to win Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year since 1983, people objected because a horse didn’t win.
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals today reinstated a discrimination suit filed by a woman who says she was denied a job because she was pregnant when it was offered. Read more →