Bob CollinsIt is, of course, way too early to know the cause of the crash of a Dubai airliner in Russia last night, but the final moments of the flight will provide some information. The flight recorders have been recovered and it shouldn’t be too difficult for investigators to come up with a theory pretty quickly. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for March 2016
Fifty-three years ago today, a poor man who had been charged with breaking into a pool hall had his conviction overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Clarence Earl Gideon didn’t have a lawyer when he was tried. Read more →
People call it March Madness, but one supposes for players who have to endure probing questions from sportswriters, it’s March Idiocy. Read more →
It probably shouldn’t take an act of Congress to get the U.S. Government to stop illegally taking money from wounded soldiers, but apparently it’s going to. Read more →
I’m a sucker for stories from the bus, usually tweets from people in real-time, trying to get somewhere on a Metro Transit vehicle.
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Hayley Orlowski is full of hope that she can do something about the number of military veterans who take their own life every day, Read more →
So this is what it’s come to, eh?
Americans dropping to their knees to beg the leader of another country to run for president of the United States. Read more →
NPR, which was the one of the first major media companies to embrace podcasting, now seems afraid of it. Read more →
If there’s a red-flag word in any headline that should keep people from getting too excited, it’s the word ‘may.’
Still, this headline can still make a jaw or two drop, we learned this afternoon. Read more →
If your workplace is anything like the World Headquarters of NewsCut, you have two kinds and only two kinds of colleagues: Those that stand up at their desks and those who sit down. Read more →
The Chicago White Sox this week blew a giant hole in the image of baseball, fathers, and sons when a player retired rather than accept the team’s edict that his son couldn’t hang out in the locker room where he even has his own locker.
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Stillwater is reconsidering the question of whether we have the freedom to park our car on the front lawn if that’s what we want to do. Read more →
There’s so much more to the recently-concluded Minnesota State High School hockey tournament than hockey hair, and couple of filmmakers have perfectly captured the essence of late winter in the state of hockey. Read more →
These are often academic questions in the political arena, but as the state’s residents grow older, “how we die” will merit significant conversations we’re unable to have now.
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An activities director of a senior center wanted to figure out how to get her hockey-loving clients to a hockey game, so the Chicago Blackhawks brought a hockey game to her, including cheerleaders, mascots, and the announcer. Read more →