Bob CollinsApparently, the House will have to vote on its revamped health care bill before we can find out what’s in it. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for May 2017
In 1967, Leo Thorsness’ wingman was shot down over North Vietnam was shot down over North Vietnam. Thorness, flying an F-105, stuck around, according to the citation when his Medal of Honor was presented. He spent six years in a POW camp, then tried to launch a political career in South Dakota.
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The sad part about today’s Facebook posting from Fox 9 morning news host Alix Kendall is that it’s not even the most horrific example of the kind of venom spewed toward TV anchors in this town. Read more →
A week or so after USA Boxing decided it would allow Oakdale boxer Amaiya Zafar to box in a sanctioned bout wearing a hijab, basketball’s governing authority has seen the light, too.
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It doesn’t look like it but there’s some fine airmanship and a little bit of ‘Sully’ Sullenberger in a plane crash in Washington state yesterday. Read more →
Mark Sertich, 95, of Duluth, still plays hockey several times a week against a bunch of kids — firefighters in their 50’s and 60’s. Read more →
It doesn’t erase the stain of its racist reputation, but Boston Red Sox fans did what they could last night to apologize to a black player who was subject to racist taunts the night before. Read more →
For a guy whose weapon was a typewriter, Frank Deford lived a dangerous life. He gave his opinions and, on occasion, they chipped away at his legacy.
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Roy Riegel, who died nine years ago, is being flushed down the urinals at baseball stadiums across the country.
It’s fitting, perhaps. Mr. Riegel was a plumber. Read more →
The shame we feel in incidents like this is our brain’s way of telling us what our heart doesn’t want to accept: We own the racism that lives among us. Read more →
Ann Schieck-Solomon and her husband, Kal, have been donating money to a scholarship in Ann’s daughter’s name since she died as the result of a car crash in November 2012.
This year they wanted to change things up a bit. So they gave away goats. Read more →
‘I am never going to let this dog go,’ Christi Smith, of Brooklyn Park, told the Pioneer Press in 2013. ‘I owe him for the rest of his life.’
Alas, the rest of TaterTot’s life was short. The pit bull, who became famous for saving Smith’s son, was euthanized yesterday. Cancer. Read more →
The closing highlights why Minnesota manufacturing jobs disappear. Factories often make things people don’t want or need anymore.
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Particularly in a rural part of the state, finding people to volunteer for party leadership at the county or district level can be difficult. But the answer isn’t to take whomever is willing to do the job.
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The Americans with Disabilities Act didn’t just make it easier for people with disabilities to move around. It literally changed the way we think about the worth of people. Read more →