Bob CollinsCompanies of more than 50 people would be required to have policies establishing the hours during which employees would not send or answer emails.
Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for May 2016
Bottom line to the rest of us: Stay in your lane when making a right turn. Read more →
Maybe if workers at a hog processing plant were white, Mason City, Iowa would have embraced a plan that would have brought close to 2,000 jobs to the city, an official with the company proposing the plant is suggesting.
Read more →
Michael Kelly talked to his mother on the phone on Mother’s Day, which isn’t particularly unusual except that Mary Reynolds hasn’t talked to her boy in about 10 years. He’s homeless in San Francisco.
Read more →
Why do baseball teams have people sitting on chairs in foul territory? This is why. Read more →
Jeff Daniels, who starred in HBO’s West Wing, recreated his Will McAvoy role — and the famous scene that launched the series — in a Bloomberg skit on Donald Trump.
Read more →
The stench from the U of M athletic department has only gotten stronger since the academic scandal under Clem Haskins. So we’ve gotten better at holding our nose.
Read more →
Like those responsible for fighting California wildfires a year ago, those in charge of quelling a wildfire on the Iron Range are frustrated with drone operators and pilots who they say are interfering with firefighting efforts.
Last year, CalFire grounded all the aircraft fighting a wildfire in the San Bernardino mountains after pilots saw two drones nearby.
Read more →
Granted, knowing more about how our brains work isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. The $51,326 that was spent on it could’ve been better spent somewhere else.
On the other hand, that’s less than a third of what we pay United States senators and we’re learning more about how neurological circuitry from drunk finches than sober politicians. Read more →
When the last of the strip clubs close, an oil boom is officially over. In Williston, N.D., the oil boom is officially over. Read more →
MPR News reporter Mukhtar Ibrahim’s been covering the ISIS terror recruit cases for more than a year, so the security people at federal court should know who he is. But yesterday he was prevented from entering the courtroom with the rest of the media. Read more →
We admit we’re conflicted by the video provided by storm chasers in tornado alley.
There’s a certain beauty in the unfolding disaster and an impressiveness in its power. On the other hand, driving toward a tornado is only encouraged by showing storm chasing video. Read more →
Is it possible to be a ‘connected’ person and still have any moral authority to speak on behalf of the environment? Read more →
In Spencer, Iowa, a 26-year-old man in a faith-based treatment program was talked out of taking medications by two pastors he was friendly with.
But a few days after entering a program, he told one of them that he wasn’t feeling right and that he was suicidal.
Rev. Nick Hanges told him it would pass.
A few days later, Hanges found the man — Alex Jacobsen — in a pool of blood. He had cut his own throat. Then he saved his life.
Read more →
How is it that a car ended up driving on the Midtown Greenway, the 5-mile stretch of bike and pedestrian trail that runs parallel to Lake Street? Read more →