Bob CollinsThe Public Radio show, RadioLab, heard on MPR on Saturday afternoons, is getting significant pushback for its handling of an interview with a Hmong veteran in the Twin Cities on last weekend’s broadcast.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
A few weeks ago, I profiled the Bus 52 team that is traveling the country, stopping in each state, and finding stories of people doing good work therein.
Today, they released one of the videos they produced while here: A group using water skiing to bring people together.
Turn on the lights, the party’s over
The messaging in the same-sex marriage campaign, when people do good… and bad, an ungrateful nation, the Boogaard’s lawsuit, and dead or dormant.
A British Columbia teen who has raised thousands of dollars for children’s medical charities is finding it difficult to get the money to come to Minnesota for treatment of her own health problems.
The death of ‘Mrs. Bieber’
The drought up close
Dispatches from Planet Democracy
The online job board scam, how a culture changes, it takes a community to respond to bullies, turn out the lights in downtown Saint Paul, and is the caterwauling over NFL referees gone too far?
Paul Tosto
Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images The play that cost the Packers the game last night — the one where the Packers guy has the ball pinned to his chest, the Seahawks guy only has one arm on it but the refs call it a catch-and-win for Seattle — was proper and correctly called, the NFL says. Read more →
Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images The NFL likely won’t take back the bad call last night that led to the Seattle Seahawks beating the Green Bay Packers on game-ending play. But it seems some of the gamblers who put money on that game will get their cash back. A Canadian journalist this morning is reporting that Read more →
The economy’s been lousy for four years and the level of student debt topped $1 trillion last year. It’s a combination that, nationally, has turned many young Americans into student loan delinquents. If there’s good news here, it’s that Minnesota institutions are showing the lowest levels of student loan delinquencies, The Federal Reserve Bank of Read more →
National Archives You’re pretty much guaranteed a daily150th anniversary Civil War remembrance through Spring 2015. Last week was a grim remembrance of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in U.S. history. You probably will not hear a lot, though, about today’s unique Civil War history, the 150th anniversary of one the worst episodes of the suspension Read more →