Bob Collins
Locally Laid, the Wrenshall, Minn., egg farm, is one of four finalists now in Intuit’s promotion to buy a Super Bowl commercial for one small business in America. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
What’s the first thing to do after a disaster takes everything away from you? Read more →
An undignified end for ‘Old Blue,’ why is ethanol bad for everyone but farmers, websites that close at night, the racist with a black past, and the difference between men’s and women’s college hockey. Read more →
A Gold Glove, batting-title winning catcher is more valuable — since there are not a lot of them — is a lot more valuable than a high-average, low-power first baseman. At $23 million a year, that’s a lot of money to pay. Read more →
The Braves are abandoning a stadium that is just 17 years old, but yet needs “hundreds of millions of dollars in improvements. Read more →
Tough times for the non-hunter in Minnesota, your kid isn’t your best friend, is it possible to succeed in the Oil Patch without others failing, Car2Go hits the streets of Minneapolis, and Jerry Kill quiets the critics. Read more →
Some letter writers take issue today with the Star Tribune’s ongoing series on the number of nurses who shouldn’t be nurses, either because they’ve become addicted to some substance or because they have a criminal history. A nurse brings up an outstanding point: there’s no place to go for nurses who find themselves in trouble. Read more →
In 1956, the Hennessy company gave Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle an 1896 bottle of Hennessy Cognac — the year he was born. Every year since, the surviving members of the flyboys who raided Tokyo in World War II, gather to drink a toast to those who’ve died. Saturday will be the last toast. When Maj. Read more →
Sometimes, sports stars really can be appropriate role models. Read more →
The skydiver plane crash reveals only one change is needed in air safety. Read more →
Laura McCallum
I first met John Michael in 1999, after I moved into the house across the street from him in St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood. I was coming home from a meeting one night, and the power was out on our block. Everything was pitch black – except John Michael and Chad’s home, which was as brightly lit up as if the power was still on. I knocked on the door, and this gregarious man opened the door, warmly welcoming me to a small cozy living room lit up by what seemed like dozens of candelabras. Typical John Michael – who needs power when you have candelabras? Read more →
Does the NPR reporter’s FoxNews work affect her credibility? Following the Red Cross’ Hurricane Sandy money, Minnesota as an unfair hockey factory, people in a vegetative state may be more alive than we think, and can trains pave the way to a more bike-friendly Minnesota? Read more →
Banning workplace discrimination against gay workers, how the IRS gave billions to identity thieves, the phony “wolves near the daycare center” story, “all out hell” promised in a Wisconsin fight over abortion, the cat who came home after five years, and Jimmy Kimmel ruins little kids’ lives. Here’s today’s news conversation with Mary Lucia on Read more →
It takes a village to raise a child. Are some in Perham taking that too far? Read more →
Though I passed along late last month that Daniel Alvarez had completed his round-trip kayak voyage from Minnesota’s Northwest Angle to Key West and back, his outstanding blog, Predictably Lost, posts 10 days behind actual events. So today, Daniel posted about the end of his journey, at the beginning of it.