Bob Collins
Pioneer Press’ Julio Ojeda-Zapata reports today that the car-sharing service wants to cut back its operations in the city. It’s only been in St. Paul for 17 months, and now it wants to serve only high-use areas. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Ethel Weiss, of Brookline, Mass., deserved a good, long retirement. But she didn’t want one. She didn’t want to let the kids down. Read more →
In the debate that has seared the nation in the last few weeks, I suspect we use the word ‘Muslim’ without a clear idea of what it means to be Muslim in America. Read more →
We are only allowed so many memorable moments in our relationship with the stuff that comes out of a radio, and there can only be one at the top of the list. Read more →
As the great St. Paul blogger Teresa Boardman likes to say, “today is Friday, and Friday is for fun.” In that spirit, we give you this paragraph from this morning’s Star Tribune and challenge you to find either the meaning or the math therein. Good luck. If you’d like some music while you work it Read more →
In Foxboro, Mass., a school has banned this photo. What’s wrong with it? She’s obviously patriotic. She has a flag in her photo.
Look closer.
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Sen. John McCain and Sen. Al Franken mix it up over their NFL loyalties. Read more →
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wittingly or unwittingly provided a sharp contrast between his country and the one to the south when a plane load of Syrian refugees arrived overnight in Toronto. Read more →
The city of Duluth and the airplane manufacturer Cirrus may be on a collision course that could have one of the few northern Minnesota success stories looking elsewhere.
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Bloomington police report there’s nothing to fear from an elderly man who lost his hat.
One can hardly blame the young girl walking home from school for saying “no” when he asked her to help look for it, or her father who called the cops, or the cops for taking it seriously. Read more →
An investigation by ProPublica and NPR into the damage inflicted by even the smallest release of private health information provides a good opportunity to re-examine a Minnesota case over who’s liable when a health care provider’s loose lips inflict damage. Read more →
The deep budget cuts in the University of Wisconsin system have hit the band kids. It’s always the band kids. Read more →
At this time of the year, we pause for an annual tradition to bow our heads and consider what on earth is wrong with people who eat lutefisk? Read more →
Authorities in Grand Forks are hoping someone will recognize the man in the video that’s been posted on the Grand Forks Herald website. He appears to be the person who torched a Somali restaurant in the city on Tuesday morning.
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The predictions that the This American Life spin-off would focus on the case of Bowe Bergdahl were correct. This year’s podcast, the first episode of which was posted overnight, shifts from ‘who did it’ to ‘why did he do it?’
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