Bob Collins
A generation or two from now, some kid at a South St. Paul high school football game is going to ask, ‘Why is the team called the Packers?’ The last packers in the city have lost their jobs. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Here’s your daily dose of sweetness.
It happened at last night’s Garth Brooks concert at Target Center when a woman waved a sign that indicated she’d had chemotherapy yesterday morning. Read more →
Death is pretty serious business, but there are worse ways to depart this world than to have the people left recalling the times you made them laugh until things came out of your nose.
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This just in from the NewsCut “What Is Wrong With You?” department staff. In the St. Louis area this week a group of special needs students were on a life skills trip to the local mall. Things were going pretty well for the kids and their teachers. They were able to work their way down Read more →
From the Department of Are You Serious comes this from KSTP, which alleges that Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges knows a gang sign.
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This could have gone very badly for this flight trying to land at O’Hare in windy conditions yesterday. Read more →
In a perfect world, love alone would cure cancer. Read more →
1,000 Words: The ‘I voted’ sticker
Depending on the reliability of witnesses, there were one or two fireballs reported over Minnesota and Wisconsin at about the same time last night. Read more →
How can you not like the miscreant(s) who ‘defaced’ the entrance to the Acme Foundry on Hiawatha Ave? Read more →
The roll of an exit poll is not to provide data upon which weighty decisions are made. The roll of an exit poll is to determine why people voted the way they did.
Today, this exit poll in South Carolina is taking a lot of heat for obvious reasons. Is it racist to try to determine if there’s a racist component of the way people vote?
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Dozens of farmers show up in Wisconsin to bring in the harvest for a man who was killed while farming last week. Read more →
We’re not even at the end of it yet and it’s already been an odd week for trying to establish parallels with football.
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Only about 50 percent of the “eligible” (not to be confused with “registered”) voters in Minnesota bothered to go to the polls on Tuesday, and Wednesday featured the usual amount of “tsk tsk’ing” from people who did. Is it bad that half the people didn’t bother to vote, especially when Minnesota made it easier this Read more →
Though we’ve never met anyone who actually eats Wheaties, this new box is the sort of thing that can make a person give it a try. Read more →