Bob CollinsEvery year safe pilots wince at the risk a pilot takes so that a newspaper can get the signature photo of Crashed Ice in Saint Paul. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Insurance hassles and regulations are forcing many rural hospitals to close their obstetrics facilities, Read more →
The snow hadn’t even started falling yet in the northeast’s ‘historic’ snowstorm when Minnesotans and other Midwesterners were taking to Twitter to joke about the East’s ignorance of what to do when it snows. Read more →
If you write a news blog for a living, there’s not much better than a debate breaking out on it over a scientific calculation.
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Could you choose which of your kids to save if their lives depended on it? Read more →
Nothing can make a person feel older than when your earliest baseball heroes die. Ernie Banks has died.
Here are 10 questions based on events that happened this week. Good luck! Read more →
If you’ve ever been to a youth athletic league game, you know the type. Perhaps, you are the type. Read more →
North Dakota has the dirtiest snow in America, according to researchers.
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Al Jazeera America this week has been peeling back the veil of indifference that has masked a reality of life in parts of Minneapolis — native American gangs. Read more →
Might the controversy over the missing two pounds-per-square inch of air from a football be blown (no pun intended) a bit out of proportion?
Let’s consider these two images of news conferences in the Boston area this week.
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Not since they dressed up llamas at the Minnesota State Fair have we seen a competition quite like the images from the Miss Universe costume competition today.
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When former Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel was paid to walk away from the company which he led into some of the worst decisions in the history of the retailer, he was given a severance package worth an estimated $61 million.
That figure is being noticed now that Target plans to put 17,000 employees out of work in Canada. Read more →
Today’s evidence of the devolution of the American boy comes from the Boston Globe, which today reports a disturbing fashion trend among boys who want to look cool at this time of the year: shorts. Read more →
If you want to learn about Minnesota, can you do any better than a fashion reporter for the Wall Street Journal who’s based out of Los Angeles?
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