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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Why a Minneapolis man is suing to halt state funding of a new stadium for the Vikings, a White Bear Lake hockey player shows what sportsmanship is, Winona is the stained-glass capital of the USA, a gay Marine dies a Marine, and the return of BatKid. Read more →
Give credit to Minnesota Vikings fans. Few other teams’ fans do more with a little hope than them. On social media this afternoon, Vikings fans appear to be riding high (by whatever definition you want to ascribe to that phrase) after the team apparently cut a deal for a new coach. Mike Zimmer, the defensive Read more →
The San Francisco Fire Department is defending itself against allegations it was callous in its response to a 16-year-old girl who was injured when thrown from the Asiana Airlines jet that cartwheeled at the airport last year. Read more →
Quebec’s proposal to ban public workers from wearing religious symbols and garb is generating plenty of heat as testimony opens on the proposal. Its supporters, however, say the ban is necessary to protect Quebec as a secular province. They call the proposed ban the “your head scarf or your job” bill. The Montreal Gazette blog Read more →
Poor left behind in MNsure mess, how out of touch do you have to be to get a newspaper column, the tuition tip, a year off for the ice man of Big Lake, and your moment of Minnesota zen. Read more →
A new study from the University of California Berkeley reveals the extent to which your decision on where to live impacts the environment. The researchers found that people in the bigger cities are responsible for less greenhouse gasses, but the suburbs produce more than enough to cancel the cities out, the Los Angeles Times reports.. Read more →
The owner of a restaurant in Texas is selling out, but not for the usual reasons. Read more →
If you look beyond the glamour events, it’s still possible to find the old-time Olympic spirit, even though the Olympics are increasingly for the well-paid professionals. One of the best places to find it is in women’s sports, in this case: hockey. The U.S. women’s hockey team is training in Massachusetts, which is great if Read more →
Like a kick in the gut comes the news today that Seven Corners Hardware in Saint Paul is closing. Given the number of people we see on the occasions when we’ve slipped out of work to browse the 9 inch-wide aisles (it’s the only retail store I know of that carries the band-saw blade I Read more →
Why can’t businesses do without its employees for a few extra hours when there’s a snowstorm? Read more →
The state gives in to the law and destroys archived baby blood samples, how did the thieves get the Target card data, a young woman’s nightmare in the Oil Patch, should Downton Abbey have included rape in its story line, and a hero bus supervisor gets his job back. Read more →
Tough times and budgets claim ESPN 1500 radio personality Jeff Dubay. Read more →
If a woman with Stage IV breast cancer wants to blog and tweet about her illness and experience, who is anybody else to criticize her? Read more →
Seniors are doing relatively well these days. Not so for people in their prime working years. Read more →