Bob Collins
Neither Representatives Dan Schoen nor Tony Cornish have taken the obvious hint from colleagues to go, prompting the Star Tribune to call for the Legislature to begin expulsion proceedings. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for November 2017
We don’t often hear about television stations going off the air but KCCO, Channel 7 in Alexandria, will fade to black at the end of the year, ending 59 years of broadcasting to the region, the St. Cloud Times reports.
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A list of show topics and guests on MPR News today. Read more →
ere’s your daily dose of bittersweetness.
Sweet because there are police officers who put homeless people up at a motel at their own expensive. Read more →
If you’re the type that wants everyone else to like you, maybe you shouldn’t serve on a jury. Read more →
This looked like your basic NFL touchdown yesterday. A player makes a decent catch, runs it to the end zone and is mobbed by happy teammates. Nice. There was more to the story. A lot more. Read more →
If ISIS can find an army of recruits using the power of social media, United Patriots of Minnesota 3% shouldn’t have much trouble, either. There are plenty of people around itching for a civil war.
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Laura McCallum, MPR’s Managing Editor of Daily News, is one of the 10,000 people volunteering to greet visitors during Super Bowl week this winter. She’ll be documenting her experience periodically on NewsCut.
Here’s her first dispatch. Read more →
Yesterday afternoon, thousands of volunteers for the upcoming Super Bowl week attended their training on how to put the state’s best foot forward for visitors to our fair state, many convinced that we’re just nicer and more polite than people in the rest of the country. Read more →
Today’s 1,000 Words comes with words.
It’s the voice of Jae Hong, a photographer for the Associated Press, whose assignment was to document the homeless crisis in the West.
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‘I want to tell you about my grandmother Charlotte, or as her friends called her, Chuck. Chuck was an Army nurse during World War II. She was trained in physical therapy and stationed in Belgium until the end of the war. ‘ Read more →
‘In a rural area outside of Arcadia, Florida, my partner and I ended up on a winding country road with a flat tire on the rental car we were driving. We pulled on to the shoulder (such as it was) and got out of the car. My partner, Bob, got the jack and spare out of the trunk and I started to call the Red Cross transportation coordinator volunteer to let him know what had happened.’
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Without someone to give a rip, this buck, stuck in the Gull River would be a goner.
That’s where Eric Sullivan, a DNR conservation officer, comes in. Read more →
‘It doesn’t take much more than kindness and a little music to turn disappointment into an unexpected gift. That’s what a group of young men did for two little boys and their mother on Thursday at the State Capitol.’
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The Green Bay Packers paid tribute to veterans during their game on Monday night, giving away American flags to everyone streaming into the stadium.
Many of the flags ended up on the ground. Read more →