Bob Collins
We’ve reached the part of the Super Bowl season when companies release their ads, garnering more attention than a TV ad probably should.
And we’re pretty OK with that. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
For a week, the Rochester Post Bulletin reports, Jadalynn Haugen debated whether to spent her $20 of birthday money on candy, or donate it to the Plainview Fire Department to help buy equipment that can resuscitate pets caught in a fire? Read more →
The big storm in Massachusetts has rekindled an old debate. Read more →
One of the country’s leading manufacturer’s of drones/quadcopters might have just shown the way to break the logjam surrounding how the devices can be regulated in a safe manner. Read more →
They’re digging out from three feet of snow in New England today. And a principal at a private school in Rhode Island is getting the attention he craved with another parody no-school announcement. Read more →
The Duluth News Tribune is the first newspaper out of the gate with an editorial panning Gov. Dayton’s transportation proposal, which includes raising the metro sales tax, increasing the license tab fees, and adding a gas tax. Read more →
Back in the infancy of the Internet, the experts told us it would give the voiceless a voice, empowering people in a way we can’t imagine.
We blew the chance. Read more →
In last year’s cold, not many people finished the grueling Arrowhead 135. This year was a different story. Read more →
It was media day at the Super Bowl today, a day that has not once — ever — given sportswriters any insight into the upcoming game. Ever.
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Sometime in June or July, if things work out as she hopes, Maxine Renning of Los Angeles will ride her bike into Minneapolis. She admits she’s not much of a cyclist but by then she will be. She’ll be riding from Baltimore and will stop here on her way to Seattle as part of a 4,000-mile ride to support people fighting cancer. That seems to be her specialty.
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Paul Tosto
Minnesota’s economy outperforms Wisconsin’s economy. It’s been that way for years. Those trends have accelerated since the end of the Great Recession. Read more →
Employees at a South Saint Paul company might well be jubilant today. They helped save the lives of a pilot of a Cirrus airplane that ran out of fuel off the coast of Hawaii yesterday.
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Glendale, Arizona — where the Super Bowl will be played next Sunday — provides a cautionary tale for cities trying to be a destination by investing heavily in sports franchises. It’s a money loser. Read more →
An estimated 10,000 anglers headed for Gull Lake for the annual Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza. They had no problem finding a place to pull up a bucket; organizers had drilled 20,000 holes. Read more →
In matters of winter, we could take a lesson from dogs, and the people who headed to Two Harbors on Sunday for the John Beargrease race. Read more →