Bob CollinsIt doesn’t appear as though Wisconsin state troopers are going to get a raise. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
For baseball fans, today is groundhog day. The day when pitchers and catchers see their shadows, signifying the beginning of spring. Read more →
You can’t take it with you when you die but you can keep making money after you’re gone if you’re a farmer.
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The chances are dwindling that the ice caves on Lake Superior will be available to you this year. Read more →
Even the mayor of Minneapolis acknowledged on Tom Weber’s program on Minnesota Public Radio yesterday that there’s no equitable distribution of the good life that The Atlantic so portrayed in its article. Read more →
Snubbed by other competitors and their enabling coaches and parents, the Faribault High School dance team got a little love from their own community yesterday.
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The Nature Soundmap provides long recordings of the natural world. Four of them are in Minnesota. Read more →
Joe Biden swore in the new secretary of defense today, then whispered sweet somethings into his wife’s ear. Read more →
It’s only a matter of time before some enterprising public radio station gives away ‘I Am Lakshmi Singh’ hats during a pledge drive.
Tote bags? So very yesterday. Read more →
Today’s release of the review of MNsure from the Office of the Legislative Auditor leaves a big question for MNsure’s board of directors: What were you thinking when you put such incompetence on the payroll? Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals today upheld the authority of the Department of Natural Resources to regulate the size and number of fish taken from Lake Mille Lacs.
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Your daily dose of sweetness today comes from KARE 11’s Lindsey Seavert, who has the story of Allen Zderad, 68, of Forest Lake. Read more →
They held David Carr’s wake in New York last night. The New York Times columnist died from complications of lung cancer last week.
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At the Piggly Wiggly supermarket in Mayville, Wisconsin — between Oshkosh and Milwaukee — Russell Kerr, 92, just wanted to get out of his parking spot.
He did. After he hit nine cars. His accelerator got stuck and he panicked. Read more →
Not since Gov. Wendell Anderson held a string of fish up for a national magazine’s photographer has there been such an outpouring of love for Minnesota — or at least the combination of communities collectively known as ‘Minneapolis,’ according to The Atlantic. Read more →