Bob CollinsIt is increasingly a part of America’s culture that when your sports team wins a championship, you go flip cars over; burning them is optional, apparently.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for April 2016
Rockport Analytics estimated $338 million in new spending would be generated by the 2018 Super Bowl in Minneapolis. Skeptics, though, say Super Bowls typically don’t deliver on the upbeat forecasts.
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The Duluth Police Department had a reasonable request on Facebook today: Please stop throwing your used hypodermic needles away in a city park. Read more →
ONE OF THE LAST VESTIGES OF OLD-SCHOOL RADIO IS FALLING: THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ANNOUNCED THE ERA OF ALL-CAPS IS OVER. Read more →
Ralphie May, the comic who was booted off the schedule at a venue in Bemidji, is finding new fame by being infamous. Read more →
Thanks to the Duluth News Tribune, we learned today how fast a police car can go when it has big intentions: 135. We also learned how fast a Camaro can go when it unwinds on Highway 61 on the way to Two Harbors: 171. Read more →
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I got a good look at Cottage Grove’s newest addition when I was testing out an external mount on a GoPro a couple of weeks ago: an island in the Mississippi River.
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There’s reserved seating in Baseball Heaven for Bill Dugan, a Detroit Tigers fan who was raised right.
He caught five foul balls in yesterday’s Detroit-Pittsburgh game. Read more →
Here’s today’s daily dose of sweetness, which continues our unofficial theme of the day: Baseball. Read more →
It’s a charming story out of Winona where a police officer helped out a girl whose bike was stolen, but it’s also got an element to it similar to the story last week in Indiana where a police officer turned a traffic stop into a proselytizing session of sorts when he asked the scofflaw whether she’d been saved. Read more →
It seems the general consensus of the Colonies is that the American experiment, at least with regard to the country’s politics, has failed somewhat miserably.
When a member of Parliament took to the floor today to face British Prime Minister David Cameron on the revelations in the release of data from a Panamanian law firm that he was hiding cash offshore, it reminded us that perhaps it’s not to late to rejoin the empire. Read more →
Toward the end of a three-month stay at a drug treatment facility, Zach Spieker wrote a letter to the opiates that bedeviled him, Fargo Forum reports.
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Slate’s Leon Neyfakh is the latest media watcher to predict doom for Public Radio, specifically the organization formerly known as National Public Radio.
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Some kids in Minneapolis needed a “dad” for a father-daughter dance recently, so some cops at the local station house stepped forward and stepped up. Read more →
The Boston Globe’s editorial board made its point in an interesting — if somewhat inflammatory way — today. Read more →