Bob Collins
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Trust me, kids. You’re going to regret giving up the piano lessons.
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By around this time next month we’ll be knee-deep in pitches for us to buy new cars.
The new vehicles, you may have heard, allow you to read Facebook while you drive, impress your neighbors, and satisfy your need to buy something — anything as dictated by the new definition of a good American. Read more →
Lost in the holiday diversions this week was the death of Paul Sprenger, who died on Monday while vacationing in Curacao.
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After the kind of year that football and NFL had — wife beating and child abuse — the latest controversy around the treatment of women shouldn’t be terribly surprising. Read more →
Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who died today shortly after his son was inaugurated into another term into his dad’s former job, may well go down as one of the few politicians unable to parlay a stemwinder political convention’s keynote speech into a subsequent endorsement for president. Read more →
There’s no better example of the appearance of questionable ethics in politics than the once brewing 2008 scandal in which a lawsuitclaimed a Minnesota businessman tried to bribe then-Sen. Norm Coleman by funeling money to a business employing Coleman’s wife.
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World, we have a problem. The year we’re leaving behind was the safest, healthiest, happiest year in human history but you don’t believe it, writes Scott Gilmore today on Maclean’s.
The world has never been more peaceful, there has never been less poverty, and our societies have never been healthier.
So what’s the problem? Why do we feel as if things have never been worse? Read more →
Roger Hanson won’t be making his ice tower in Big Lake this year. Superior, Wisconsin has hired him away to make the world’s largest ice tower in the city. Read more →
Lauren Hill, the Cincinnati woman who is dying from a brain tumor, has reached another goal. The basketball player wanted to raise a million dollars for cancer research by the end of the year. In the last minutes of a telethon, someone threw $100,000 in. Read more →
The worst job in the world? Might we suggest NPR has it covered with this morning’s video on the people who collect the bodies of ebola victims.
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We kept looking for clues in the Pioneer Press story that Gov. Mark Dayton was pulling a joke on reporter David Montgomery about one of his goals for the coming legislative session. Read more →
If you need a little reminder that the country has made some progress in matters of race, pay attention to who’s riding on the ‘inspiring stories’ float at the beginning of the Tournament of Roses parade tomorrow.
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Lake Superior State University in Michigan couldn’t have been more perfect with its selection of words that should — but won’t be — banned in 2015. Read more →
Jay Wilds, the somewhat mysterious man who blew the whistle on Adnan Syed in the murder case that spawned the podcast “Serial,” has never heard the show. Read more →