Bob CollinsLangendorff and his neighbor will be the poster boys for gun advocates, just as Kelley will be the focus of gun opponents.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for November 2017
Athletes could better show their patriotism by taking 5 minutes to learn how not to treat it when you win a marathon. Read more →
A hospice volunteer in Itasca County doesn’t want a flu shot and she may lose her volunteer job if she doesn’t get one.
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In Virginia, Sepp Shirey is a dedicated member of the Atlee High football team, putting in his work though it requires more effort because of cerebral palsy. Read more →
William Craft, the president of Concordia College in Moorhead, hit it out of the park this week when he responded to posters around campus saying, ‘It’s OK to be white.’ Read more →
Give it up, please for country music star Brad Paisley, who today practically single-handedly took a stand for treating people like adults, even if means they get to ask stupid questions sometimes. Read more →
Trucks are dangerous partners on the highway. A good rule of thumb is to allow several zip codes to exist between you and the trucker. Read more →
You’ve been looking for a job for months now and you’ve finally scored an interview with a pretty good company. Your interview is going well when the interviewer asks if you plan to have kids.
It’s illegal to ask that question but what happens if you refuse to answer it and note that the interviewer just broke the law? And so, you just go along and make up an answer if you have to. Read more →
It’s only coincidence that on the same day I post about a high school kid giving the finger to a ref in high school soccer’s biggest game of the year, NPR has waded into the waters of the high school classroom and the kids who drop ‘f-bombs’ in class. Read more →
Most morning shows on commercial radio should never be taken too seriously, but apparently an election in Grand Forks could be influenced by a satirical, if juvenile, bit by a local radio station’s shock jocks. Part of the problem, perhaps, is the gullibility of listeners. Read more →
Even Weiss’ reason for not being even a little afraid of the possibility of a terrorist is going to get a lot of urban cyclists around the country cheering. He already deals with everyday automobile drivers, he writes. Read more →
Washington County deputies never expected anything back from the attention they paid to Margo Alice Forrest, who never married, never had kids, lived alone and kept to herself, the Pioneer Press’ Mary Divine writes today. Read more →
Although a high-ranking politician in the United States calls our justice system ‘a joke’, you couldn’t tell it by Minnesota’s approach to drug users. Drug courts work by treating addiction as an illness and steering away from jail users who are willing to put in the time in a more productive way. Read more →
We’re not above poking fun at the state to the east but there’s nothing but love for Wisconsin this morning, which provides us with a needed reminder that decency is still in style. Read more →
It’s really the simple marriage proposals that are the most beautiful. Like Carlos Correa’s. Nothing fancy. Step One: Win the World Series with the Houston Astros. Step Two: Work out a plan with Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports to interview you on national TV. Step Three: Propose. Read more →