Bob CollinsThere are certain moments when Target Field can be one of the most beautiful sports venues in America.
Yesterday was one of those days.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: 1000 Words
These days, we’ll take a little hopefulness anywhere we can find it, and if you’ve been reading the comments since last week’s court decision in St. Paul, we can use a little hopefulness. Read more →
We like to think Batman — Adam West — gave Gotham one last boost last night when he reminded us that there’s more to America than its warring factions.
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I suppose this image in the Star Tribune’s Metro section today was supposed to show us the sheer force of the wind during yesterday’s storms.
Instead, it makes me wonder what you people were thinking? Read more →
On a weekend in which images of human evil raced around the world in seconds, it’s this image that won the day.
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The Pipestone Area Schools class of 2017 visited the elementary students today before counting down the final seconds of high school. Read more →
There are times when you think you’ve lost everything. Then there’s someone to hug you and maybe you realize you haven’t. Read more →
Sometimes the dramatic moment captured by news photographers isn’t really the actual moment. Read more →
When police in Ferguson, Missouri launched tear gas into the crowd protesting the police shooting there in 2014, Edward Crawford, then 25, went for a cannister and threw it back and kept ahold of his bag of chips.
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is about out of fuel and pretty soon, the space agency will lose its ability to maneuver it. It’ll crash into Saturn. But before that happens, it took a last look at a barely visible dot between Saturn’s rings. Read more →
The danger of the news business is it can desensitize us to the news.
If you see something often enough, the shock of it wears away until it seems like something normal. When things are normal, we tend not to pay much attention to it. Read more →
A woman at the scene of this week’s terrorist attack in Westminster is finding out firsthand how fake news works. Read more →
Storm chasers headed to “tornado alley” on Sunday to honor Bill Paxton, the actor who put them on the map when he starred in “Twister.”
So, after hearing of his death, they put him on the map. Read more →
The ground hog gets far too much attention for predicting spring.
This is better.
Today, the first baseball team — the Cleveland Indians — reported to spring training. Read more →
I normally don’t post Twitter as a 1,000 Words entry.
But sometimes you just have to let the content make the call. Read more →