In an earlier, simpler era, news organizations had easy decisions when it came to racist statements in public. They opted to report on them in the belief that it would reveal the extent to which racism existed, even though it was hidden. The audience would be repulsed and push back, and decency would win the day. Easy call.
Read more →
The little airport in Silver Bay is gone now and now Wayne Johnson, the force behind its creation, is too. Read more →
The DFL candidates for governor are debating on MPR News this morning and it’s not too hard to figure out that attorney general Lori Swanson, whose last-minute entry into the race roiled the primary waters, is going to be the target of her opponents. They likely smell blood in the water following a damning story from The Intercept that Swanson used state employees to perform campaign work.
Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
It’s Little League World Series season, the annual exercise in which kids provide regular lessons on sportsmanship to adults who don’t get it.
Read more →
More than any other medium, local television news has a way of creating a personal connection between the person on the air, and the anonymous person watching at home.
So the death of Steve Frazier, the Fox 9 meteorologist, has understandably hit viewers hard. Read more →
During yesterday’s game between the Yankees and White Sox in Chicago, a moth flew into an umpire’s ear and wouldn’t come out. Read more →
It’s Kubb, and it’s particularly popular in Wisconsin, perhaps because you can compete while drinking a can of beer. Read more →
Only a state with giant ball of twine could appreciate what might have been in Willmar, where a plan to move a lighthouse from Lake Superior in Duluth to the land-locked town appears to be sunk for good. Read more →
Car pooling hit its peak at the garages in 2012, when the Minneapolis garages were built to help reduce congestion from I-394, I-94, and the northern suburbs. But it’s dropped about 30 percent since then, while parking contracts for individual vehicles have soared downtown.
It’s a classic case of people saying one thing and doing another.
Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
When you play for an unaffiliated baseball team in an independent league, your methods of self-expression are apparently, uh, a little more flexible. Read more →
A Minnesota team of synchronized swimmers will bring home gold medals from this year’s Gay Games in Paris. “The Subversive Sirens” won gold for their synchronized routine performed to Prince’s song “Let’s Go Crazy,” wearing suits emblazoned with his gender-fluid symbol in purple sequins. None of the five women have ever competed in synchronized swimming Read more →
A smart, easily understandable video by the Minnesota Health Department could save you a lot of heartache next time you’re wondering what to do when you encounter a bat. Read more →
It started with a tweet from our very own Nancy Yang, of her heckin good boy Mickey: Current view: pic.twitter.com/74EaR4E7mM — Nancy Yang (@n_yang) August 6, 2018 It was retweeted just a minute later by everyone’s favorite advocate for Minnesotan primacy, Indignant Minnesotan. In the tweet, they asked for other people’s #MinnesotaPup pictures, promising to retweet the Read more →
Bob Collins
Paul Tosto
Marianne Combs
Sara Porter