Bob Collins
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
An update from Chicago, via the Chicago Tribune, settles the story of the guy at a game at Wrigley Field yesterday who appeared to take the ball from a kid in the first row. Read more →
We know a little something about the process of finding and booking guests for shows on TV and radio but we still can’t figure out how, assuming a minimal level of competence, Fox News ended up booking a Massachusetts opponent of separating immigrant children from their parents when it thought it was lining up an Arizona supporter of U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement policies.
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The Lopez family has been stranded in Costa Rica because 3-year-old son Axel was injured during the trip and is in a cast, unable to fly on a commercial flight. Read more →
Half of the newspapers reporters and editors are being eliminated in an oh-so-American-workplace way today. They’ve been told to go back to their cubicle farms and wait for the email which will tell them whether they’re staying or going. Read more →
The big aviation fly-in in Oshkosh opened this morning over in Oshkosh, Wis.
For one week each year, the airport becomes THE busiest airport in the world. Read more →
If there’s still justice in the world, someone is tracking down this Chicago Cubs “fan”, who has no knowledge, we presume, of one of the rules of being a baseball fan: Give the kid the ball. Read more →
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President Trump’s tit-for-tat trade war with China has now reached the cartoon soybean stage. Read more →
I’m generally not a big fan of of the theatrics and drama of people who declare that they’re leaving Twitter. Just go, already, if it’s not for you.
Everyone who’s on Twitter already knows it’s become a cesspool of bickering and politics since, well, you know. That’s not all Twitter is, of course, but it can easily give you a skewed perspective of the human condition and that can be exhausting. Read more →
Bowling is reportedly still the #1 participatory sport in America, Motherboard contends.
Someone has to go to work every day to fix the contraptions that reset the pins.
Someone like Joe Martinez. Read more →
Two women fed their babies at a swimming pool in Mora this week and that’s the sort of thing that people call the cops on in Mora.
Sit tight, Mora. You’re about to get a pool full of nursing women. Read more →
In a small and rare victory for the working stiff, Sun Country Airlines, still in the process of becoming a cheap, no-frills operation, has found failure in its plan to get rid of its own employees in favor of outsourcing the jobs to people who’ll work for less pay and benefits. Read more →
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Dogs. Am I right? Read more →