Curtis Gilbert
First-term Council Member Alondra Cano wants Minneapolis to think more creatively about economic development, although her bike powered peanut butter factory idea is somewhat impractical. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Bob CollinsThere have been enough of these types of stories lately to declare that society is witnessing a significant shift when it comes to bullying.
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Country radio executive Keith Hill is telling radio programmers at country radio stations that if they want to get better ratings, they need to get female singers off the air.
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Concordia College professor W. Scott Olsen pens a terrific essay — a requiem, he says — to a just-about-gone icon of American life and, occasionally, the privacy it provided.
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It’s a pretty fair bet that few people are going to feel sorry for the change that might’ve presented itself on your doorstep today.
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Don Buller, of Hendricks, MN., left nothing to chance when it came to preparing for the next life.
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Thrown into Lake Superior, a message in a bottle took 10 years to find its way to the exotic land of Michigan. Read more →
You hate to see slow, agonizing deaths. A speedy exit is probably the best way to go. Read more →
They’re pretty excited for Monday to come over in Wisconsin.
Starting Monday, they get to drink beer from Minnesota, one more brick in the wall collapsing between the two states.
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Maybe drivers get cut off. Maybe they spend too much time on smartphones, maybe the kids were screaming. Whatever.
We’re just not very good at this driving stuff.
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It’s impossible to talk about this mysterious Cessna over the skies of Minneapolis and other America cities without sounding like a soldier in the tinfoil-hat brigade. But the mystery does defy a logical explanation. Read more →
Adrian Peterson, who has refused to attend optional Minnesota Vikings practices in an ongoing contract dispute, is again using Twitter to pour gas on a fire. Read more →
While waiting for the World Series (with the Twins) to get underway, there’s not much for sports fans in the Twin Cities to do today — an off day for the local entry in the American League.
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In New Hampshire, high school seniors spent some of the year raising the $8,000 it would take for a class trip to the Adirondacks of New York, part of the perk of being a high school senior.
Then they found out their principal, Courtney Vashaw, has cancer. Read more →
If you didn’t read all the way through the Associated Press’ story on Bob Schieffer today, you might’ve missed an important cultural nugget. Read more →