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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for October 2017

People are jerks · Sports

‘Who’s your daddy?” taunt idea costs coach his job

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 20, 2017, 11:43 AM Oct 20, 2017
12

Fired Maine high school football coach Duane Greaton says he wants to tell his side of the story and we’re all ears, waiting to find out why the defensive unit of the Gray-New Gloucester football team was told to yell ‘who’s your daddy?’ every time they got to the quarterback for Yarmouth High School.

The quarterback has two mothers. Read more →

Sports

Thumbs down, America!

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 20, 2017, 8:40 AM Oct 20, 2017
6

A New York Mets fan, ‘thumbs down guy’ couldn’t possibly have known he’d be famous thanks to his expressed displeasure about a New York Yankee homerun hit in his team’s stadium — Citi Field — in September. Read more →

This or That

A journalist with a point of view? That’s a good thing

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 20, 2017, 6:55 AM Oct 20, 2017
41

If the notion of talking with each other catches on, and if we move beyond the civil war mentality that’s paralyzing the nation, one might suggest that a journalist with a point of view is one reason why. Read more →

Economy

Why Minnesota isn’t going to get Amazon’s headquarters

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 19, 2017, 2:34 PM Oct 19, 2017
50

Minnesota is not going to get Amazon to establish its second headquarters in the state. The only people who think it will seem to be from Minnesota. Read more →

Health

Health insurance premiums likely to soar after subsidy cut

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 19, 2017, 1:11 PM Oct 19, 2017
4

We got a bit of a preview today about what’s going to happen now that President Trump has ordered a halt to subsidy payments to insurance companies for health insurance copayments and deductibles.
Read more →

Politics

Mother Jones: Wisconsin’s guide to suppressing the vote

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 19, 2017, 10:45 AM Oct 19, 2017
23

The alleged voter suppression effort in Wisconsin is now virtually bullet proof. Its beneficiaries are now in charge of the judiciary. Its patrons are running the elections. Read more →

This or That

There’s a black market for Spam in Hawaii

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 19, 2017, 9:32 AM Oct 19, 2017
14

People are becoming more brazen when stealing Spam. An official blames a law that raised the level for a felony theft from $300 to $750. You can get a lot of spam for $749.99 and less. Read more →

Arts & Culture

High school production of ‘Legally Blonde’ challenged in Cloquet

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 19, 2017, 8:27 AM Oct 19, 2017
34

The play is to open at Cloquet Senior High School in mid-November, but not until a parent group finishes going through the play line by line to insure that the performance can get at least a ‘PG’ rating. Read more →

Health · People doing good

ALS claims man who just wanted a kinder world

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 19, 2017, 6:59 AM Oct 19, 2017
9

Chris Rosati, who suffered from ALS, died yesterday after a few more hours of suffering when he decided to have doctors remove the tracheal tube that helped him breathe and stay alive.
Read more →

Education

Purple hair at homecoming too hot for a school district

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 18, 2017, 3:45 PM Oct 18, 2017
19

From the Department of What Were They Thinking comes this adorable picture of Ebony Smith and Kasson Abdullah, the homecoming king and queen of the North Shore Senior High in the Houston area. Lovely purple hair, Ebony. Who wouldn’t love it? Officials of the North Shore Senior High and the school district which photoshopped a Read more →

This or That

When a satirical Facebook post became a real protest

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 18, 2017, 2:10 PM Oct 18, 2017
2

It’s been a few days since opponents of bike lanes in Minneapolis showed up at a protest that basically mocked them and we still can’t decide who ‘won’ the day: The ‘internet prankster’ who created the fake protest event or the people who turned it into a real protest.

Read more →

Politics

Latest poll shows too many Americans aren’t very knowledgeable

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 18, 2017, 11:45 AM Oct 18, 2017
31

The American news media is wasting its time informing the country’s citizens. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Olympic gymnast describes abuse

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 18, 2017, 10:22 AM Oct 18, 2017
21

The stories being told as part of the #MeToo hashtag have been gut wrenching and should be an embarrassment to any man. Read more →

Economy · Sports

As Aaron Rodgers goes, so goes Wisconsin

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 18, 2017, 9:04 AM Oct 18, 2017
15

Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers quarterback, is one of Wisconsin’s economic engines.
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Regional history

Don’t like Bde Maka Ska? Tough

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 18, 2017, 6:56 AM Oct 18, 2017
142

At best, perhaps, there might be an argument that changing the name of Lake Calhoun could be inconvenient for people who are simply used to the name. But this barely registers a blip on the inconvenience scale from zero to the Trail of Tears.
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