Bob CollinsIt follows testing at Mayo facilities in Arizona and Florida in which it was found that women without nylons don’t affect patient care. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Whenever I’ve gone off to cover the Minnesota delegation at a Democratic National Convention, there’s always one Democratic member of the state’s congressional delegation I never see, and whose name is never uttered — Rep. Collin Peterson.
A Washington Post analysis today of votes in Congress shows why: No other Democrat in the House votes against his party more than Peterson. Read more →
Wisconsin has always been a little bit ahead of its neighbor to the west when it comes to discouraging Native American mascots by sports teams. Read more →
We like the pizzazz Torii Hunter brings to the Twins as much as the next blogger, but we still have to admit: This pitch is too close to take with two strikes and even if it’s outside, it’s not the type of call to do a Target Field striptease over. But that wasn’t really the Read more →
It was a short but predictably successful search for the man who donated a wedding dress to a charity thrift shop this week, thanks to social media.
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We don’t like to admit it, but many of us are closer to rock bottom than we might think.
Even TV news celebrities — a high-ego community if ever there was one — aren’t shielded from the ‘shame’ we tend to heap on people who are unemployed. The Great Recession should’ve taught us how vulnerable we are to the whims of employers and a shaky economy, and to think about what we’d do when the ax falls.
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Chopper might be among the most famous therapy dogs but when he and his owner returned from a trip that included visiting VA hospitals and nursing homes, his owner found out that Pet Partners, a nonprofit group that evaluates and insures therapy animals, is dropping Chopper because he wears a biker outfit. Read more →
The price of gasoline jumped in the Twin Cities today, hitting $2.79 a gallon in most locations. It’s a lot better than a year ago, of course, but it’s a lot higher than a few months ago.
The experts said the economy would get a big boost because we’d spend the money we didn’t spend on gas on things that might get the economy humming a little more.
It’s as if the experts have never met the motoring public. Read more →
Nobel recipient Tim Hunt has failed again to solve one of life’s enduring mysteries: how can some smart people be so utterly stupid? Read more →
Generations have grown up without looking up and dreaming. Read more →
Snow Leopards, Prairie Hawks, Wooly Mammoths, Green Pride, didn’t make the latest cut, the Grand Forks Herald reports today. Read more →
Lake Elmo is a mess, but like most things in Minnesota government these days, the particulars are officially a secret.
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South Dakota Public Broadcasting knows how to put the ‘public’ in broadcasting.
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There are worse ways to start a day than with Grand Forks Herald great Marilyn Hagerty’s restaurant reviews. Read more →
Perhaps it should be no surprise that improving graduation rates in the nation’s high schools are often the result of cooking the books. Whenever the standards for earning a high school degree are raised, politicians seem to backtrack on them because so many students would fail to graduate. Well, yes, that’s the thing with higher standards; they have to be met or they have to be lowered — one or the other. Read more →