Bob CollinsThere may be another casualty after the latest mass murder: the focus on the need for mental health care.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
How a warm welcome in Rochester changed a Bosnian refugees life. What will our economic lives be like in 2038? Last call for drive-in theaters. The unwinnable war against synthetic drugs. And is the end near for childhood beauty pageants? Read more →
How did the shooter in Washington get his guns? Jerry Kill says that’ll be enough epilepsy talk, thank you. Wisconsin squeezes some teeth out of the lemon law. An electrical fire caused the big fire in Winona, and the one on the boardwalk in New Jersey, too. And the mothers and fathers who watch their children and can’t make it better. Read more →
When it comes to the low number of people without health insurance, four states lead the nation: Massachusetts, Hawaii, Vermont and Minnesota.
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What’s in a name? Everything when it comes to polling about the health care law, officially known as the Affordable Care Act.
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Everyone wants a happy ending for Shaina Briscoe. So far, it hasn’t been enough. Read more →
Like the cockpit recordings of a doomed airliner, the last words of dead men can be a haunting thing to read.
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The king of The Netherlands today declared the end of the welfare state in his country. He then got in a horse-drawn golden coach and returned to his palace.
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Some NPR listeners are challenging the “patriotism” of NPR because it’s allowing the new Al Jazeera America Read more →
Strib apologizes for Souhan column, then pretty much repeats it; a toast to Doris; on ‘thoughts and prayers,’ the limits of free speech online, and the homeless man who gave a pile of money back. Read more →
CBS’ John Miller was one of two reporters today who botched the identity of the person apparently responsible for killing at least a dozen people at the Navy Yard in Washington today. The gunman carried the ID of another man and Miller, along with an NBC news reporter, didn’t wait for authorities to identify the Read more →
Stepping up security at ballparks. Read more →
Few things can get people as stirred up as the random appearance of a clown.
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Navy Yard shooting photos show patience, bravery in the face of danger. Read more →
The stories out of Colorado over the weekend have been gut-wrenching; this CBS story this morning particularly so. A young man named Wesley Quinlan was swept to his death, but not before helping to save his friends. “Wesley just grabbed each of us and looked in our faces and just said, ‘We have to get Read more →