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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Four Inns, old-school St. Paul diner, set to close

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 9, 2015, 3:14 PM Jun 9, 2015
21

Another gaping hole in the downtown St. Paul skyway system is emerging. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Headline-writing legend dead

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 9, 2015, 2:15 PM Jun 9, 2015
2

For most of us, a minute or two of our workday in the context of our lives doesn’t define us. Read more →

Bank stands against boycott call over same-sex ad

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 9, 2015, 1:13 PM Jun 9, 2015
23

Wells Fargo isn’t giving in to evangelist Franklin Graham, who objects to this ad. Read more →

Health

Too ill to travel? Dad makes it to daughter’s wedding

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 9, 2015, 11:29 AM Jun 9, 2015
3

Andre Pearson, 61, of Omaha, has been a patient at Mayo Clinic in Rochester since March. He has serious heart problems. But he made it to his daughter’s California wedding. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Racist comments started pool fight, party host says

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 9, 2015, 10:06 AM Jun 9, 2015
25

The Dallas Morning News reports today a 19-year-old African-American woman says racist comments at her party at the community pool started things rolling. Read more →

Science

In fracking debate, intelligent discourse brushed off

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 9, 2015, 9:21 AM Jun 9, 2015
5

A good screaming match is great for ratings. If intellectual curiosity gets slaughtered in the process, so be it. Read more →

Delta declares war on price shopping

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 9, 2015, 8:37 AM Jun 9, 2015
15

Trip Advisor, the online travel site, is pretty much worthless now for people who fly out of airports that serve as Delta hubs, such as Minneapolis St. Paul.

The airline no longer exists on the site. Read more →

Education

At 102, woman becomes oldest recipient of doctorate

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 9, 2015, 7:57 AM Jun 9, 2015
2

We’re declaring this Ingeborg Rapoport Day, in honor of the 102-year-old German woman who today will get a doctorate from Hamburg University Medical Center.

She wrote her thesis on diptheria 80 years ago, but the Nazis would not allow her to defend it. Read more →

Weather

For a beautiful sunset, just add filth

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 9, 2015, 6:35 AM Jun 9, 2015
1

The irony isn’t lost on us that the beauty of sunrises and sunsets often depends on filth — pollution and smoke, mostly.
Read more →

War

Stories on boulders adorn Capitol grounds

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 8, 2015, 2:52 PM Jun 8, 2015
6

Last week, the newest addition to the green space on the Minnesota Capitol grounds was completed when work on the Minnesota Military Family Tribute was finished. Read more →

Sports

Apple pitches in to help $1-million-a-month ballplayer

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 8, 2015, 12:41 PM Jun 8, 2015
10

Thanks to Apple, a Major League Baseball player is going to get the ball he hit for his 100th Major League homerun. Read more →

Firefighters blast drone watching them work

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 8, 2015, 10:15 AM Jun 8, 2015
13

Drone owner John Thompson isn’t getting much sympathy since he posted this video on Facebook showing firefighters trying to shoot down his drone. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Sports

After fan is hit by bat, calls to end ‘baseball rule’

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 8, 2015, 8:15 AM Jun 8, 2015
36

‘The Baseball Rule is ripe for change,’ Martin Healy, head of the Massachusetts Bar Association, said. ‘The immunity the baseball rule has provided to baseball has to be tossed out.’
Read more →

Crime and Justice

A ‘hoax within a hoax within a secret’

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 8, 2015, 7:45 AM Jun 8, 2015
2

You’re going to want to sit down for this.

Not everything you read online is true.
Read more →

Crime and Justice

Man misses birth of son, sues Fergus Falls cops

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 8, 2015, 6:42 AM Jun 8, 2015
4

At least in Fergus Falls, pleading with a police officer who stopped you that you’re on your way to the hospital because your wife is in labor won’t work. Read more →

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