Bob Collins
Sometimes, the events that come from us being apart from one another, pull us together.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for January 2015
With a few seasons as exceptions, the Minnesota Wild have been dull underachievers almost since the day they brought mediocre hockey back to Minnesota. Read more →
Perhaps like us, you’ve been getting texts and tweets from colleagues who are in sunny Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics show, in which tomorrow’s hyped gadgets are on display today.
We’re pretty sure this isn’t overhyped. Read more →
The Baseball Hall of Fame balloting is over and all that’s left are the sour grapes. Read more →
Terrorists killed a dozen people in an assault on free speech, but it took a newspaper in New York to deliver the final blow. Read more →
There are certainly troubling aspects to the alleged actions of former East Ridge High School (Woodbury) principal Aaron Harper, who resigned under pressure in early November. Read more →
What do we call us? ‘The thermally-challenged hell hole north of Iowa’ won’t fit on a license plate.
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Jenna Langer Vancura, who died on Saturday, wrote her own obituary, which has just been published as the final entry on her blog, The Redhead Report, which documented her 12-year battle with cancer.
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By the time the U.S. Supreme Court gets around to deciding whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, it may be overtaken by events. Read more →
We can argue all day about the value of the wind chill number until we’re blue in the bare skin, but there’s no doubting this advisory number now dictates how we live our lives. It’s instant drama in an industry that requires drama.
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For many people, the calendar is irrelevant when it comes to the first day of winter. It starts when the Madeline Island Ferry calls it a season because of ice on Lake Superior between the island and Bayfield, Wisconsin. Read more →
Between 2010 and 2012, 16.4 people per million population died in Minnesota from alcohol poisoning, the Centers for Disease Control said today. Only seven states are worse. Read more →
We bid farewell today to Bernard Jordan who has died at age 90. You may recall him from his escapade last year when he went AWOL from his senior citizens home in England and showed up in France to commemorate D-Day. Read more →
In Maryland, a City Council member in Frederick is threatening to sue the local newspaper for using his name in its stories. Read more →
This afternoon, the Baseball Writers of America will announce the 2015 class for the Baseball Hall of Fame. The juiced-up stars — Bonds, Clemens, McGwire — will not be among them.
And that’s a good enough reason to scrap Cooperstown. Read more →