Bob CollinsEven if it ends up costing them money to do so, the odds are that Good Samaritans would still stop at crash scenes to help out; that’s just the way Good Samaritans are.
Still, being the one to stop shouldn’t cost you money. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Here you go, Morning Edition fans. Everything you’d want to know about Steve Inskeep, the NPR host of the morning program. Charlie Rose claims it’s the program he gets his news from before he goes to work in the morning to tell people the news. “Anybody who can do this job can do this job,” Read more →
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport isn’t the only place where the neighbors are upset about the noise. The Federal Aviation Administration today sent a notice to area pilots to stop flying low over the Lake Elmo area. Over the past few weeks, the Minneapolis Flight Standards District Office has received numerous complaints against low flying aircraft in the Read more →
When you have a copyright, child abuse is like Kryptonite.
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The great Steve Hartman’s piece this week on a teacher in a dirt-poor Texas town, who overcame her own poverty in the Philippines and was almost deported here, forces us to examine why some people “make it” and others don’t. A young student says he’s learned to never give up. “You can do anything you Read more →
The story of a 90-year-old man and his 3-year-old neighbor. Unfortunately, it’s ending Read more →
More often, we hear “it takes too long” among potential Green Line. There’s a good reason for that. It takes too long.
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After finishing fourth last year, Ville Parviainen and Janette Oksman have reached the top. They won the world championship in wife-carrying in Finland over the weekend. Thirty-six couples from a dozen countries took part. The prize? Oksman’s weight in beer. Meanwhile, in Monona, Wisconsin, Jon Fenrick carried his wife, Angie, 850 feet through an obstacle Read more →
It’s bad enough that a mudslide inundates your home, sending you running for your life. But when you find out your home is gone and insurance won’t give you a dime, it’s an extra punch to the gut. Homeowners insurance generally doesn’t cover flooding nor “acts of God.” It happened to Randy Carlson, who has Read more →
There’s no bigger problem in all of aviation than runway incursions, in which a plane strays onto an active runway. In Barcelona this weekend, an Aerolineas Argentinas plane crossed a runway directly into the path of a landing Russian airliner. It could have been catastrophic. The captain of the jet on the ground likely missed Read more →
Joe Stiglingh, of West Palm Beach, sent his quadcopter and GoPro on a suicide mission in May. But he wanted to see what fireworks look like inside the fireworks that were being fired off in Miami. The equipment survived, he found out, and now his video is tearing up the Internet. It’s being portrayed as Read more →
Like most great performers, Stephen Dragert Gallivan is a shy guy. Put him in a seersucker suit, stick him on a tricycle, and give him ice cream to sell, however, and he’s Wally Wonka. Read more →
A New York student refused to participate in his commencement ceremony unless his twin brother, who has Down syndrome, was allowed to walk on stage with him. Read more →
What’s wrong with this document? An academic in New Jersey says a period after the phrase “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” appears in the official transcript of the Declaration of Independence, but not on the badly faded original that’s on display. Danielle Allen, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, says the Read more →
There’s good money in vitamins and strip joints. Just ask Leland Swanson of Fargo. The Fargo Forum reports that Swanson has recently dropped almost $8 million to buy an apartment at One57 in New York, the 90-story tower for billionaires on New York’s Central Park. Swanson is president of Swanson Health Products, which sells vitamins, Read more →