Bob Collins
As we’ve posted numerous times, we’re not generally a big fan of TV reporters standing in water to reveal the drama of a flood, but we make an exception today for a reporter from KTRK in Houston, where severe flooding has hit. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for April 2016
It’s not often we see a congressional race in Minnesota get as negative as the one that’s underway in the 2nd District to replace retiring Rep. John Kline. Read more →
Generally, there’s not a lot of buzz at high school tournament time when the tournament is about speech, which is why today’s post from the Minnesota State High School League’s Tom Leighton is such a great read for a Monday morning. Read more →
Here’s an idea. If you’re uncomfortable with someone speaking Arabic on an airplane, maybe you should get off. Read more →
The Twins and the company that runs the concessions at Target Field have bused in workers from Chicago and Milwaukee to fill the jobs at the concession stands. Read more →
Let the record show that when the Minnesota veterans of World War II and the Korean War walked into a restaurant on their Honor Flight to visit the World War II and Korean War memorial on Saturday, the people in the restaurant knew just what to do. Read more →
Protesters with air horns disrupted last night’s MinnRoast, the fundraiser at the State Theater for the independent news site MinnPost [dislaimer: I am a financial contributor to MinnPost], after Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges used an incident during the 4th Precinct protests as the setting for a joke about her husband. Last November 18, a group Read more →
Why? Because it’s Friday and Fridays are for ducks and the kids that chant ‘let’s go ducks!,’ that’s why.
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Beretta, the world’s oldest gun manufacturer, opened its new factory in Tennessee today, making good on its vow to leave a state with tougher gun laws, underscoring that economic development increasingly depends on a state’s politics as well as its taxes. Read more →
Montevideo, Minn., is high on the list of quirky cities of Minnesota. This video, posted on the police department’s Facebook page, isn’t going to tarnish its image one bit.
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Posit: At least on a day like today, the best job in Minnesota is reroofing a church steeple in St. Paul, while being hoisted in a bucket and suspended by a crane Familiarity with the book of Isaiah optional.
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MPR News’ Matt Sepic reports today that home buyers are being squeezed in these parts because there aren’t enough home sellers. Land prices are too high so the homes that are being built may not be that affordable.
Maybe it’s just as well.
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Beware the golfer scorned, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources found out last night at a hearing on the DNR’s decision to close its only golf course. Read more →
Kathleen Errico, of Haverhill, Mass., found her 23-year-old daughter dead of a heroin overdose two weeks ago. In the days that followed, she knew what she had to do. She had to ignore the ‘died suddenly’ code words and write about her daughter’s life the way her daughter’s life was.
So she wrote this.
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals is now considering the case of a man who sawed his neighbor’s garage in half in a property dispute.
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