I know you’ve thought about it. You’ve thought about it more often this week. “The house is on fire, I’ve got to get out, there’s time to grab only a couple of things. What do I take?” I thought about it, too. This morning I watched as a CNN crew went with two neighbors in Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for October 2007
MPR reporter Lorna Benson profiles Dr. Grace Buwule today (“Uganda doctor takes home diabetes strategies honed in Minnesota“). Buwule takes what he learns in Minnesota, with the hope of making a difference in combating the disease in Uganda. University of Minnesota diabetes doctor Toni Moran knows first hand the challenges Buwule faces. Moran spent a Read more →
Granted, Minnesota kids are supposed to be above average. But one would expect even more of kids from Cambridge, in the shadow of Harvard, right? That’s what Phillip Greenspun thinks. A school in his fair city achieved the distinction of the lowest grade on that state’s high school biology standards test; lower, he notes, than Read more →
In Wisconsin, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has told the entire town of Crandon, Wisconsin to shut up. Van Hollen says he was just passing along the wishes of the victims’ families in the town where, authorities believe, 20-year-old Tyler Peterson, an off-duty deputy and part-time Crandon police officer, gunned down six people, including his Read more →