Bob Collins
We first met Todd and Donna Morse when they were sandbagging against the Red River in 2009. They left Moorhead a few years ago for better times in the Oil Patch. Then the oil boom went bust. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for May 2016
There’s nothing that can rip the heart like the sound of a dying dream. Read more →
The House voted 129-3 to pass a bill that encourages schools that voluntarily provide character development education to include Congressional Medal of Honor history and values in the curriculum.
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Frank Levingston, the nation’s oldest living World War II veteran has died. He’d held the distinction for only two weeks. Read more →
Greater love hath no basset hound than that which Grumpie and Gracie had for five-month-old Nora Hall, who died on Monday at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis after suffering a stroke last month. Read more →
Across the street from the Lake Elmo Airport, the second-smallest airport of the Metropolitan Airports Commission’s “reliever airports” — a neighborhood is rising from the onetime cornfields.
That’s significant given that the airport is becoming the focus of neighborhood opposition because of plans to expand one of the runways to a length similar to those at other small airports in the area, such as South St. Paul’s Holman Field.
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In this growing age of artificial intelligence, a good question might be whose jobs won’t be taken by a machine?
News writers? You’re in the crosshairs of your new overlords.
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Give credit to Washington County for wanting to find out how pervasive human trafficking is around here.
Now it’s found out. It’s disgustingly bad. Read more →
The Star Tribune reports that an addiction specialist in California was working to get Prince into rehab before he died. If true, it makes Prince’s death all the more tragic. Read more →
Gene Hanson, a farmer in Edgeley, N.D., is getting some national recognition because he had some time on his hands and decided to go play in the dirt.
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AP photographer Joe Rosenthal didn’t get the names of the guys who re-enacted the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945. There was a war going on and some of the men pictured were dead not long after he took the photograph.
It was left to the ages to figure out and, for the most part, the ages did a pretty good job crediting John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, Harlon Block, Michael Strank and Franklin Sousley for their display that buoyed a nation that was sick of the war and its thousands of casualties.
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Winter, Wis., population 306, located southeast of Hayward, is getting some astronaut love today from its favorite astronaut. Read more →
There’s still a chance, albeit somewhat slim, that the Minnesota Legislature will pass legislation to require an estimated 10,000 police officers in Minnesota to get four hours of training on how to respond to mental health calls. Read more →
City Pages, the Twin Cities alt weekly, is under fire in Minneapolis for an anonymously sourced piece critical of a member of the Minneapolis City Council.
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The growing movement to end tipping will find few fans in tiny Lisbon, N.D., southwest of Fargo. Read more →