Bob CollinsLinda Kwong tried to take her own life in 2012, but she lived to talk about it publicly, something that almost never happens; we’re not that advanced yet in our willingness to talk about such things. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Mr. Bendo has been standing outside a muffler shop in Sioux Falls for years. The people of Sioux Falls have grown to like the guy who’s been standing over them since 1963. Read more →
Steve Hiniker, of Madison, Wis., lost his wallet. Last May he stopped in to buy some power bars while bicycling in the Czech Republic. He accidentally left it in a small store in Litomerice, about 40 miles from Prague Read more →
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The pilot of a vintage military airplane that crashed today at Anoka Blaine Airport reported his plane was apparently on fire just before it crashed at the end of a runway. Read more →
In 1986, Joe Murphy was the first overall pick in the NHL draft, selected by the Detroit Red Wings after a career at Michigan State. It was the first time an NCAA collegiate player had been taken No. 1.
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The killing of Molly Tibbetts, the Iowa college student who was abducted when she went out for a run, is a scary story, and not because of the liklihood we’ll be the victim of a similar crime.
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Those of us in the news business tend to think the audience is preoccupied with the big stories we deem worth covering. Here’s the reality: most people aren’t. Read more →
People who didn’t have a complete formal education are often quicker to realize the value of one than those who did. Read more →
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Nothing, not losing a license, not jail time, not even losing most of her kids to the state, is likely to keep Tasha Lynn Schleicher, 41, of New Hope, Minn., from driving drunk. Read more →
The schedule-makers for Major League Baseball should come visit Minnesota. If they would, they might understand why some Minnesota Twins officials are shaking their heads after looking at the 2019 schedule, which was revealed to the rest of us today. Read more →
Jeff Swenson, of St. Paul Park, is a different sort of Minnesota politician. He won an election in which he wasn’t running.
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Last year on “move-in day,” the new students at the University of Minnesota Duluth had to run the gauntlet of testosterone and alcohol. It wasn’t pretty. Read more →
You have to really want to be a journalist to end up in journalism. And if you want to cover the federal courts of the low-tech United States, you have to be a track star. Read more →