Bob CollinsA Grand Forks is begging for a kidney. It’s a family tradition.
Bonnie Haman is the thirteenth person in her family to need a kidney transplant. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The world is such now that when some people die, the neighbors barely notice. Central air conditioning and backyard decks have insulated us from one another.
That’s what makes what’s happened in Plymouth all the more poignant. Read more →
It can be easy for people to give up on North Minneapolis. Just ask a craft brewery owner, who has decided to move his business after another weekend of violence in the neighborhood. Read more →
The killing of a black man inside his own apartment by a cop who allegedly thought she was entering her own unit is pretty much why people of color kneel on the sideline of football games. Some police officers, they say, are far too quick to take the lives of African-Americans. Too many jurors, they add, are too quick to let them get away with it. Read more →
I am sorry to report that Pernina Burke, who graced these pages in March when she turned 100, passed away on Sunday morning, her granddaughter, Christie reports. My life is full of opportunities I wish I’d pursued but didn’t, so it was particular pleasure to be able to tell her story, which is reprinted here. Read more →
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If ever there was a slam-dunk case in which the 4th Amendment was clearly violated, it was the mass arrest and handcuffing of a group of middle school girls in San Bernardino, Calif., in 2013. For some reason the school board has continued to defend it and the sheriff’s deputy. Today, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals smacked it down again, just as a lower court had. Read more →
It’s not hard at all to see why a district court judge in St. Louis County threw the book at Brian Barthman of Hermantown more than a year ago. His criminal sexual conduct was particularly disgusting on many levels. Read more →
Even though he doesn’t seem suited for too many jobs, Brian Starr will probably get a full-time gig soon. Read more →
Look, if a Red Sox fan can give a baseball to a Yankees fan and find the joy in doing so, anything in the world is possible.
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Walt Straka, 98, is the only surviving member of the 194th Tank Battalion in Brainerd, who were ordered to the Philippines in September 1941, a few months before Pearl Harbor. They were the first tank unit in the Far East. Read more →
In its latest sexual harassment and abuse scandal, CBS Corporation said it ‘takes these allegations very seriously.’ As with so many corporations, that’s a lie. Read more →
‘My goal for doing this is just to make at least one person believe in magic again,’ Hope McAlister said. ‘You can physically see people light up as you start talking about it.’
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Oh, dear person who got a wrong number from a woman at a bar, you have united a small corner of the world. Read more →
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