Bob Collins
We can’t watch this horrible video without wondering, ‘What if?’. What if someone wasn’t in a perfect position to see a South Carolina cop execute a black man, who had been stopped for a broken tail light. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tyrel Oates, the Charlotte Wells Fargo employee who wrote to CEO John Stumpf last year asking for a $10,000 raise for him and his colleagues, isn’t waiting around for a response, apparently. Read more →
The baseball box score, a longtime staple of the newspaper sports section, may be disappearing.
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When you’re a professional basketball player, you really don’t need anyone to give you cars and prizes; you can buy them with the pocket change you put on the dresser every night.
But it still takes a special person to pass the wealth along to someone else.
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A lot of people are ripping off the system, the Pioneer Press reports today, citing an audit showing Green Line riders in particular are dodging fares. Read more →
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill waded into dangerous territory for politicians overnight: college sports and the kids who don’t bother going to class. Read more →
On the Minnesota-South Dakota border, Trygve Trooien was something of a legend as the bachelor farmer. And a bit of a curiosity. Read more →
Stuart Schumacher finds something new every time he reads a recent obituary for a 4-year-old boy. The boy’s name was Evan, and Schumacher wrote the obituary in the hours after he lost his son. Read more →
It seems Americans are occasionally challenged by simple civics. But the notion that voting marks an engaged country seems questionable Read more →
It’s a good time to be a golfer, but for the fact there aren’t all that many golfers anymore.
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Fargo Forum editor Matt Von Pinnon is defending Friday’s front page, which featured the photos of North Dakota House members and their vote on a measure that would have extended discrimination protection to gays. Read more →
As usual, Steve Hartman nailed it again, telling the story of Carter and Jack Hanson, who literally fell in love with history. Read more →
Maura Crowell was given a five-year deal that starts at $140,000 for the 2015-16 season and jumps $7,500 each year before hitting $170,000 in 2019-2020. Both numbers are well below the $215,000 Miller was pulling in at the school that’s bleeding red ink.
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Emily Phillips made sure we’ll remember her even though most of us never knew her. She wrote her own obituary. Read more →
If a guy wants to wear women’s clothing, how does that impact you to the point where you beat him up? It’s just cloth. Read more →