Bob Collins
Perhaps you’ve seen the video a man on the way home from a curling match filmed at a McDonald’s drive-thru on Stinson Boulevard in Minneapolis on Monday. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Memo: If you’re a leader in the fight against cultural appropriation, you might not want to go with blackface on Halloween. Read more →
In the annals of Minnesota Public Radio, perhaps only Michael Barone has a beard more worthy of historical note than our former colleague Mark Heistad.
He’s had it since June 1975. He stopped shaving the day after he graduated from high school. Read more →
The prevailing jet stream over the Midwest from the south and west has brought the unusual warmth in the last few weeks. Despite today’s return to cooler weather, that trend is likely to continue for awhile.
And that might be part of the reason for an increase in jet noise complaints recently — the wind. Read more →
By all accounts, Misty Leonida’s son, Eli, 13, was looking forward to Halloween last weekend when he could help pass out candy and celebrate the day as family. He was going to trick-or-treat with his West Side St. Paul friends. Then he had a seizure and ended up in the hospital. Read more →
Maybe Minnesotans won’t invite you to their home. But they’ll bring you doughnuts. What more can you want? Read more →
On the list of great jobs, we’re going to have to put Yves Rossy’s. He’s a ‘jetman.’ He flies around with a jetpack on his back, making appearances at various air shows as he did two years ago over in Oshkosh, his first public flight in the United States.
Now he’s upped his game even more.
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On Halloween, Georgia state trooper Nathan Bradley heard the particulars on his police radio of a traffic accident not far away from where he was patrolling.
He headed for the scene, he writes.
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High schools that may have resisted dumping their offensive Native American nicknames now have an additional incentive to do so: Money.
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The New York Times isn’t that thrilled with the Honeycrisp apple, a fruit that has a thicker skin than some Minnesotans, apparently. Read more →
‘Where is the most dangerous place for free speech in America? It’s not Iran, it’s not North Korea. We’re not going there,’ Grand Forks City Council member Terry Bjerke told a crowd this week. ‘The college campuses and the University of North Dakota are the most dangerous places for free speech.’ Read more →
The Wild ranked fourth among all major sports teams in amount of money accepted for patriotic displays, according to a congressional report released Wednesday. Read more →
Daniel Heinrich has not been charged with any crime relating to the disappearance of Jacob Wetterling. But officials identified him with a phrase that presents ethical questions for journalists: person of interest. Read more →
In the case Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz the story today is, again, how we don’t know what we think we know. Read more →
Gary and Kris Rothers buried their daughter, Abby, in August in St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parish cemetery on south Highway 61 in Hastings, and then found that pots of mums were being stolen, a despicable crime, of course. Read more →