Bob CollinsAmericans didn’t like health care much until they were set to lose it last year in the initial wave of attempts to rollback the Affordable Care Act.
That should’ve told the Democrats something. It did. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
This is why baseball is confusing to teach to a novice. Even the players often don’t know what’s going on. Read more →
For all her pop hits, it’s the story of an aria that reminds us that we didn’t really know Aretha Franklin. Read more →
Amelia Weaver’s quality of life improved after medical marijuana became available to her in Minnesota. Read more →
When Phyllis and Bob Litherland started the Dairy Queen in Moorhead in 1949, their friends told them fast food was just a fad that would never last. They didn’t listen, even if it meant they had to sleep in the backroom while pouring their money into the place.
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Humanity to one another is nice and all but what really sets a heart atwitter is a good animal in need.
How else can we explain the story of Esther the Wonder Pig, whose illness prompted people in Canada to raise $650,000 so that a CT scanner big enough to fit the pig could be purchased. One wasn’t available in Canada. Read more →
There’s nothing we enjoy more than a nice, round number.
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In their race to pass legislation, lawmakers often don’t have or don’t take enough time to fully think about what they’re passing. Then, it’s up to courts to clean up the mess. Read more →
There’ll be plenty of citations of Aretha Franklin’s best work on the occasion of her death today.
I prefer to cite its impact. It could make your heart swell and think anything is possible.
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Two stories in the news this week reveal anew a problem in our technological age: humans. Read more →
It was the height of the morning rush hour on I-94 below when a man perched himself on the Earl St. bridge on Wednesday. He was saved by a man who gives a rip and a six-pack of Coors Light. Read more →
The Boston Globe asked news media around the country to editorialize today in support of a free press. A few hundred papers took the Globe up on the challenge. A lot of others didn’t.
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Last September, the appeals court overturned the firearms and drug
convictions of suspected drug dealer Cortney John Edstrom, saying if a court ruled a drug sniffing dog outside an apartment isn’t an invasion of privacy, the Fourth Amendment would be of little use to apartment dwellers.
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