Bob CollinsJenna Langer Vancura, who died on Saturday, wrote her own obituary, which has just been published as the final entry on her blog, The Redhead Report, which documented her 12-year battle with cancer.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By the time the U.S. Supreme Court gets around to deciding whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, it may be overtaken by events. Read more →
We can argue all day about the value of the wind chill number until we’re blue in the bare skin, but there’s no doubting this advisory number now dictates how we live our lives. It’s instant drama in an industry that requires drama.
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For many people, the calendar is irrelevant when it comes to the first day of winter. It starts when the Madeline Island Ferry calls it a season because of ice on Lake Superior between the island and Bayfield, Wisconsin. Read more →
Between 2010 and 2012, 16.4 people per million population died in Minnesota from alcohol poisoning, the Centers for Disease Control said today. Only seven states are worse. Read more →
We bid farewell today to Bernard Jordan who has died at age 90. You may recall him from his escapade last year when he went AWOL from his senior citizens home in England and showed up in France to commemorate D-Day. Read more →
In Maryland, a City Council member in Frederick is threatening to sue the local newspaper for using his name in its stories. Read more →
This afternoon, the Baseball Writers of America will announce the 2015 class for the Baseball Hall of Fame. The juiced-up stars — Bonds, Clemens, McGwire — will not be among them.
And that’s a good enough reason to scrap Cooperstown. Read more →
There’s a reality about the State of Hockey — it can be stuck in the ’60s when it comes to female coaches and the way parents and players react to the notion that women know a thing or two about the game. Read more →
For 23 years, the Great American Think-off in New York Mills, Minn., has helped thaw the collective brain of Minnesotans, paralyzed by the mind-numbing winters. Read more →
Things could be worse. We could be without the entertainment value of Lake Superior during the state’s worst cold snaps. Read more →
The world’s most effective Petri dishes — schools — have reopened after the holiday break and that should make the flu season here worse than it already was. Read more →
Jenna Langer Vancura, whom I wrote about in September, died on Saturday. She was just 28. The Woodbury and New Ulm native chronicled her life with cancer on her blog, The Redhead Report, and visited MPR’s Daily Circuit a few times too. She had three bouts with cancer, then announced in September — 11 years Read more →
If there’s one thing the world didn’t need, it’s another reason to doubt the apparent best intentions of others, but thanks to a YouTube filmmaker, that’s what we’ve got. Read more →
Is the price of gasoline really low or does it just feel that way? Read more →