Bob Collins
History has not been kind to the Carter administration but it has been kind to Carter, a recognition that maybe in the here and now, we’re never as smart as we think we are.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for July 2017
Todd Waters, 69, has died, or, as hoboes say, ‘he caught the Westbound.’ Waters was a hobo who proudly noted in 2012 that he’s been arrested about 70 times jumping railroad cars out of St. Paul for parts unknown and known. He was also a millionaire.
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The current contract between NPR and the SAG-AFTRA union ended at the close of last month and employees agreed to an extension while talks on a new contract continue. The extension runs out tomorrow night. Read more →
We suspect that Minnesota and other regional farmers are about to organize a ‘hay-lift’ to the farmers of North Dakota, because from the sound of things, they’re going to need it.
A look at this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor map reveals why. To the west of us, there’s a real problem underway.
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Maybe Brandon Rogers would’ve become a big star. Maybe not. We’ll never know.
He was trying to win the America’s Got Talent competition and had advanced past the auditions, but was killed in a car crash in mid-June.
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As tornadoes go these days, this one in eastern Iowa on Tuesday was comparatively small, but it still provided one of the better tornado videos we’ve ever seen.
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Of all the secrets that leak out on the planet on a daily basis, none is more well kept than the identity of sports mascots. So who’d like to reveal the true identity of TC Bear?
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A couple on their way to Wisconsin to rescue dogs from slaughter in Korea ran out of luck when their SUV broke down in Stillwater. But then a community service officer gave them the keys to his vehicle, the Pioneer Press reports. Read more →
Baseball has been pushing hard for years to elevate ‘God Bless America’ to National Anthem status, specifically in a salute to veterans and soldiers. It’s a nice sentiment and good business. Read more →
A big chunk of ice broke off from Antarctica today and we’re running out of ways to tell you how big it is. Read more →
Little has so defined the dysfunction of a state government with a budget surplus and its citizens indifference toward people with a mental health crisis, than Minnesota’s refusal to fund a suicide hotline that’s been operating for nearly 50 years. But the Minnesota Legislature didn’t come up with any money, neither did any area foundations, and the stateline hotline will shut down on Friday. A national hotline will continue to be available, and so will some county-operated hotlines. Read more →
Who wouldn’t take every opportunity to own a record in a state that’s fishing crazy like Minnesota?
Kelsey Poshusta. Read more →
More than 14,000 people in British Columbia have fled their homes because of wildfires.
Sally Aitken and her husband, Jack, of Vancouver, were at their summer home waiting things out when the power went out.
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Any story that contains the words ‘with everything going on in the world, we still have humanity,’ will always find a home on NewsCut, which is why we’re applauding the beach-goers in Panama City Beach, Fla., who created a human chain to save a family that was being swept away by the riptide. Read more →
David Brooks, a product of private schools and two affluent parents, faced the problem that bedevils many a newspaper columnist today: He had a deadline and nothing to say.
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