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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for October 2016

Politics

A White House Halloween

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 31, 2016, 7:35 PM Oct 31, 2016
12

We cop to feeling some hope for normalcy in the country whenever we see a president of the United Stand outside the White House while 4,000 Washington DC school kids file by to get candy from him. That some dressed like Scooby Doo, only makes us swell with pride. Read more →

Facebook activists are trying to confuse cops at Standing Rock

Cody NelsonCody Nelson October 31, 2016, 3:10 PM Oct 31, 2016
14

Even if they’re thousands of miles away, scores of Facebook users are trying to help Dakota Access pipeline protesters at Standing Rock in North Dakota. Read more →

Politics

Boy dresses as Hillary for Halloween; Twitter boils

Tracy MumfordTracy Mumford October 31, 2016, 2:43 PM Oct 31, 2016
17

One 8-year-old boy’s costume is a reminder that, for kids of any gender, dressing like a powerful politician no longer just means dressing like a man. Read more →

Sports

How Steve Henneberry got into a World Series game

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 31, 2016, 10:36 AM Oct 31, 2016
3

Steve Henneberry, who works at the University of Minnesota, drove to Chicago a few days ago even though he didn’t have a ticket to the World Series and probably couldn’t afford what the scalpers were selling them for.

But Steve had something better, it turned out. He had a long-time friend. Read more →

This or That

A young boy’s best pal — Erling Kindem — dead at 91

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 30, 2016, 12:44 PM Oct 30, 2016
3

It’s hard to say for sure why Boyd Huppert’s story of Emmett and Erling struck such a nerve with most of us when it first aired a few years ago. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Mysteries on the obituary page

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 30, 2016, 12:34 PM Oct 30, 2016
6

At first, it seemed like a mistake on Saturday’s (and Sunday’s) obituary page in the Star Tribune.

Two people, same picture. Some mistake. Read more →

Arts & Culture

PiPress’ Bulletin Board secret revealed

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 29, 2016, 5:10 PM Oct 29, 2016
8

Until the secret was revealed on Saturday, nobody knew who was behind perhaps the most popular feature in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In revealing it, we also learned that it is on borrowed time. Read more →

Video: Jet catches fire at O’Hare

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2016, 3:28 PM Oct 28, 2016
7

This is some amazing video from a passenger aboard the American Airlines jet that caught fire while on a take-off roll at O’Hare this afternoon.
Read more →

Politics

Vote for Grandpa!

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2016, 2:04 PM Oct 28, 2016
8

If you’re sick of all the political campaigning and the dueling letters to the editor, it’s only because you haven’t yet met Michael Holmes, a former Red Wing resident, who suggests you pay attention to what he has to say about the race for mayor in the city. Read more →

Sports · This or That

The Cubs, an old lady, and a bottle of Jaegermeister

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2016, 1:08 PM Oct 28, 2016
3

In this space yesterday we critiqued how one news organization chose to cover a World Series without offering a proper alternative.

Here’s the proper alternative. Read more →

Sports

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust at Wrigley

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2016, 12:16 PM Oct 28, 2016
6

In the temples of baseball — the old stadiums full of tradition — it can be a fulltime job keeping fans from spreading the ashes of the dearly departed. Read more →

Posting your kids’ pictures on social media? It seems only fair

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2016, 9:34 AM Oct 28, 2016
22

One of the reasons parenthood is so hard is because there are so many people in the business or pleasure of telling you how you’re doing it wrong. And there’s no greater expert on how to be a parent than the ones who’ve been doing it for a couple of years, tops.
Read more →

Arts & Culture

Twin Cities boy, 9, to be Buddhist spiritual leader

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2016, 9:16 AM Oct 28, 2016
3

Like any 4th grade boy, Jalue Dorje enjoys soccer, swimming and Pokemon cards. But unlike most 9-year-olds, he is believed to be — and confirmed by the Dalai Lama himself — the reincarnation of an eminent senior lama who died nine years ago. Read more →

Sports

Dispatches from a pheasant hunt

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2016, 8:30 AM Oct 28, 2016
18

Sam Cook of the Duluth News Tribune, who has a way of putting his couch-anchored readers out in the woods, asks in his column today, ‘Do you want to know how the hunting has been this fall?’ Read more →

Crime and Justice

Malheur verdict hailed as ‘victory for rural America’

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2016, 6:38 AM Oct 28, 2016
67

Perhaps no jury verdict since O.J. Simpson’s has sparked such a discussion on race and the judicial system as yesterday’s surprise “not guilty” verdict against the armed protesters — all white — who took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, protesting what they said was government overeach.
Read more →

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