Bob Collins
Andrew Burton, a photographer for Getty Images, has spent the last two days photographing the men who’ve headed for the good times of western North Dakota, home of the oil boom.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
These are the faces behind NPR’s political voices. Don Gonyea, Scott Horsley and Brian Naylor are taking part in the Des Moines Register’s annual bike ride across Iowa — RAGBRAI. They said they wanted to see the Iowa they missed while covering the presidential caucuses in the 2012 campaign. You can follow their exploits on Read more →
The long reach of poverty, the last days of ‘Big Blue,’ the food-truck controversy, the wheelage tax speeds through Minnesota counties, and the car seat’s great leap forward. Read more →
A break in student-loan interest rates could be at hand, the freak show in London, Anthony Weiner’s problem, the toddler death in Wisconsin, how you fall out of a roller coaster, and the special education teacher. Read more →
Wendy DeGeest once planned a life as an elementary school teacher. Then she found the kids who really needed her and everything became clear. It was the 1980s and Pine City, Minn., needed a special education teacher. Growing up in a family that struggled with mental illness, DeGeest knew something about the wayward ways of Read more →
Where are all the tornadoes this year, what we’re supposed to do about white privilege, the good of video gaming, four simple words that could change how we think about mental health, and the last first dance. Read more →
Why aren’t same-sex couples inviting the governor to the wedding, another lawsuit alleging sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts, a big jailbreak in Baghdad, the death of Dennis Farina, and why skipping breakfast might kill you. Read more →
It’s a shame so much attention in Minnesota is being paid to a royal baby because it risks missing the passing of a true legend in the state. Rosalie Wahl, first woman on the Minnesota Supreme Court, died this morning. She was regarded as the “founding mother” of female attorneys in the state. She could’ve Read more →
That dot there? That’s us. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took pictures of Earth from nearly 900 million miles away on Friday. It took a day to send them back. Cassini fans took the images, stretched and pasted them, adjusted the color. Guillermo Abramson, a physicist at Argentina’s Bariloche Atomic Center, came up with this striking image. Read more →
Five men, all over 60 years are biking to raise money for wounded soldiers. Read more →
One statute’s stood the test of time in Minnesota: You can’t sell booze to a minor. Period. Read more →
MPR this weeks digs into the state’s mental health system. Read more →
When Mary had to drop her passion, for the love of baseball, a new bike for Shaina, from the mean streets of New York Mills, and with this ring I thee reclaim two lives. Read more →
You had to figure after Seth Collins reached Milwaukee in his quest to leave a big tip for an unsuspecting server that Minnesota was next. Last week, I told you about Collins, who is traveling the country in honor of his brother, who died and left a suggestion for his family that they make someone’s Read more →
The gardening season of 2013 is going to go down as the one in which people sunk to the lowest level possible. It has become common this year to take flowers, trees, and potted plants from other people who did all the work. Can chaining up flower pots and bushes be far away? The latest Read more →