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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for July 2014
If the day’s news is enough to make you question the decency and sanity of humans, then the Carnegie Foundation couldn’t have picked a better day to release its list of Carnegie Heroes. Read more →
People lost their homes. Taxpayers lost millions covering the loans. U.S. Bank lost some petty cash and didn’t admit it did anything wrong. That’s the problem.
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It was fairly frightening watching Serena Williams trying to play tennis today. The five-time Wimbledon champ pulled out of a doubles match today, which came after a lengthy courtside visit with a doctor. Were it not for the seriousness of the situation, the cheekiness of the Brit broadcasters would be positively entertaining. Wimbledon doctors are Read more →
The largest airplane ever built will be in the Twin Cities for another day. What’s it look like inside? Read more →
On this the 83rd birthday of the Stillwater lift bridge (which will reopen to traffic tomorrow, by the way), we pause to note that its replacement is starting to look like a bridge. Read more →
Who knows what we would have done in the situation Michael Johannes, 51, of Minneapolis was in Sunday evening when his Chevy Trailblazer caught on fire?
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Minneapolis is a fairly dense city, Alex Cecchini writes on streets.mn, but Minneapolitans don’t seem to use mass transit to the extent one would expect. He found 55 percent of the people in the zip codes he analyzed work within five miles of where they live, which should allow for a commute of 30 minutes Read more →
A St. Louis County commissioner, a supporter of a controversial copper mine, is at the center of a controversy for a history lesson he gave during a public hearing in Ely, the Duluth News Tribune reports today. Read more →