Bob CollinsToday’s Story Corps segment from NPR provides that unusual blend of sweetness and horror.
Horror over the way we treat people we profess to love. Sweetness from the strangers who take our place. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
A lot of cab drivers feel threatened by upstarts like Uber and Lyft, but they’re not helping themselves with the story from WCCO today about a man with disabilities who couldn’t get a ride.
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Kip Hedges was fired after giving an interview to Workday Minnesota in October. Hedges is a baggage handler at the airport.
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The Star Tribune wins today’s Internet with this shot from today’s Minnesota State High School League meeting where it adopted a proposed rule on transgender athletes. Read more →
KSTP owner Stanley Hubbard has fired back at a Twin Cities journalism association over its criticism of the so-called ‘Pointergate’ story the station ran, purporting to show Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges flashing gang signs with a young man during a get-out-the-vote effort in north Minneapolis. Read more →
In San Jose, Calif., today, authorities went ahead with their plan to clear what they say is the largest homeless camp in the United States. Read more →
The protests surrounding the police killings of black men have provided fertile ground for a discussion of First Amendment issues and today Providence, Rhode Island is the latest example. Read more →
A Canadian low-cost airline has struck it big on the InterTubes with its lengthy commercial/doc on providing a Christmas for a village in the Dominican Republic. Read more →
A guy in Cottage Grove can’t receive the applause he fully deserves because he doesn’t want his last name used, but he’s a neighbor looking out for other neighbors. Read more →
Every now and again, Jon Stewart bites his lip and doesn’t try to be funny. Last night was one of those nights. Read more →
Lauren Hill, the basketball player who won hearts in the face of a pending death because of cancer, has entered hospice care, ESPN reports. Read more →
Even if you don’t stop to read the obituary page every day, it’s hardly a secret that people die from horrible diseases, that they’re taken too soon, and that life is inherently unfair.
For the most part we might stop to read a few lines, then move along because life goes on; that’s the nature of life. Read more →
Last July, Major League Baseball used its biggest in-season stage — the All-Star Game in Minneapolis — to try to convince people that its days of creating a hostile environment for the gay athlete — or gays at all — are over. Read more →
Last time we checked, authorities who were in charge of investigating the killing of Cold Spring police officer Tom Decker had still not apologized to Ryan Larson, the man they identified as an initial suspect with no evidence to suggest he did. Read more →
The Twins made it official this morning when they announced that former star Torii Hunter has been signed for a one-year contract.
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