Bob Collins
Should there be more restrictions on teen drivers, end of the golden era of food trucks, llamas 101, the paradox of the close call, some kids are smarter than others, and the great bike helmet debate of 2012.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for August 2012
Pesky dies a jock
The art of the impossible
Some Minnesotans might be chortling about a study out today showing Mississippi is the most obese state in the country, but our day will come, Minnesota. You had your chance to lower the obesity rate by 15 percent and — like every state in the union — you missed.
Joe DiMaggio was a righthanded hitter. What’s wrong with this stamp in the recently released Major League Baseball stars series released by the USPS
A year ago Friday, Arianna Tatum jumped to her death off the White Bear Ave bridge over I-94.
Grading the medal predictions, gas prices jump again, the impossible things that are possible, a Perseid postscript, and the return to South St. Paul.
Paul Tosto
Photo courtesy of Doug Ohman The mom-and-pop resort, that staple of Minnesota lake life, is becoming harder to find. MPR News reporter Tom Robertson wrote that in July 2002. At that point, crazy lakeshore prices were making it too lucrative for small resort owners not to sell their land and leave the business. That same Read more →
This afternoon, no doubt, we will listen to stories about Tim Allen’s life and walk away from the memorial service wishing we’d known him better, perhaps feeling a bit ashamed that in our online world, we didn’t know him at all.
When authorities know where you are, the predictable plane crash video, are we a melting pot or a boiling pot, Duluth watches Kansas City get the fiber diet, and if you want to slim down be a hunter/gatherer.
Vietnam didn’t get Bipes. The CIA didn’t get Bipes. And a knoll in a farmer’s field in Glencoe didn’t get Bipes. Mosquitoes almost did.