Bob CollinsThe identity of small towns is disappearing in a cloud of regional newspaper mush intended to ‘relevant’ to an audience across communities. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for February 2018
OK, one last video from Deadspin’s visit to Minnesota for the Super Bowl. It contains the ultimate slam against our great state, referring to the Mall of America as ‘Minnesota’s chief cultural institution.’
That one left a mark.
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The Duluth News Tribune says ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ will no longer be required reading in the curriculum because racial slurs are used in them.
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St. Paul’s new mayor, Melvin Carter has provided a bit of a simple roadmap for untangling the gridlock of political America. Read more →
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I’ve been fortunate enough to watch (from afar) about every space launch since Alan Shepard went for a quick ride in May 1961, but I confess that I’ve never seen anything like what happened at Cape Canaveral today where the SpaceX Falcon Heavy test flight was launched.
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Kryssy Pease says she has kept quiet for years and might have on Tuesday, too, if Daniel Zwerdling hadn’t said the accusations from other women aren’t true.
Newspapers could cure their readership problem if they’d just put the police log on the front page. Read more →
Poor Jeffrey Wong. He had the misfortune of being photographed by the Associated Press for a story last year about how Hawaii is preparing for the missle threat from North Korea.
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Few cities have wrestled with the idea more than Willmar, Minn., where the City Council has voted 5-to-2 to embrace a resolution on welcoming after months of debate. Read more →
Roller-skating rinks in Minnesota are apparently the new drive-in theater. Nice for nostalgia but disappearing fast. Read more →
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A New Hampshire woman who won a half-billion dollars in the Powerball game wants to remain anonymous. The lottery says she can’t. Read more →
Knowing what social media can do to a person’s career in short order, however, it was a little scary watching what happened to WCCO meteorologist Mike Augustyniak, who lives downtown and looked out the window at the reality below, and dared to tell people. Read more →
Really, is there anything more we wanted out of the Super Bowl than this tweet from a Sports Illustrated icon? Read more →