Bob Collins
Are comment sections tools for good or evil? Talk it out at the next Policy and a Pint. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
It’s a rough year to be a business owner depending on tourists around Mille Lacs Lake.
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Despite there being no witnesses, no gun, no evidence, and no charges, police authorities and the media covering the killing of Cold Spring police officer Tom Decker last year all but indicted Larson for the killing. Read more →
Selling bikes or gender stereotypes? Read more →
The safety net you don’t know you have, after the attention disappears for ‘heroes’, the cancer game, writing your own obit, and why he can’t quit A-Rod. Read more →
Nate MinorT.D. “Tommy” Mischke, the quirky and well-loved radio host, announced on his WCCO-AM show last night that he’s leaving the station.
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For me, the canoe is staying at home this year and not heading to the Boundary Waters. Read more →
A new nationwide Gallup poll shows that beer and wine are roughly equally popular among drinkers.
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Freelance writer Michele Catalano, writing on Medium.com, relays the story of how six agents from a “joint terrorism task force” showed up at her house. Read more →
A new report from Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald says an National Security Agency program collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet.’
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After getting shut out of royalties in their breakout hit “Hot Cheetos and Takis” last year, Da Rich Kidzz (formerly Y.N. Rich Kids) are cashing in. At Kmart. Read more →
What is changing from the Vatican is tone, not catechism. Read more →
Scott Simon, host of Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR, is a master essayist and storyteller. He’s telling a compelling story now on Twitter: the imminent death of his mother.
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Evidence suggests that for many young parents, smartphones and iPads are the new babysitters. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled today that a guardian can authorize the disconnection of life-support systems without the intervention of the courts in Minnesota.
The court ruled in the case of Jeffers Tschumy, a 53 year old man with no family who suffered from diabetes, effect of a stroke and partial paralysis from a spinal infection. A profession guardian was appointed in 2009 and when Tschumy suffered irreversible brain damage in April 2012, his guardian directed Abbott Northwestern Hospital to remove life-prolonging treatment. Read more →