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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for March 2018

Arts & Culture · Sports

It’s time to move on from Prince

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2018, 11:38 AM Mar 1, 2018
35

Golf Digest blogger Joel Beall thinks Minnesota should move on from Prince, though from his column this week, it’s not entirely clear what we should move on to, given that it’s the only identity Minnesotans have. Read more →

Economy

NE Minneapolis brewery calls it quits

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2018, 11:30 AM Mar 1, 2018
19

Rare is the day when some entrepreneur doesn’t reveal some plan to open up a tap room and rare is the day when some city doesn’t see it as a path to revitalize a city block. There have been amazing success stories and the beer drinkers of the Twin Cities have never had it better. Still, one does have to wonder how many different beers the Cities can support. Read more →

Education

When the kids act like adults, the adults push back

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2018, 10:44 AM Mar 1, 2018
20

The kids of Garretson, S.D., on the Minnesota border, have learned a valuable lesson. Adults may want young adults to be more civically engaged, but they’re mostly lying.
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This or That

Farewell, KLBB

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2018, 9:07 AM Mar 1, 2018
26

The station will go dark at the end of the month. Read more →

Sports

Talk of restricting guns is good for the gun business

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2018, 8:21 AM Mar 1, 2018
16

Restrictions on gun sales, announced by Dick’s Sporting Goods and Walmart, are pretty good news for gun dealers not named Dick’s Sporting Goods or Walmart. Read more →

Crime and Justice

The killers on the highways use smartphones

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2018, 7:01 AM Mar 1, 2018
37

It seems highly unlikely that the genie can be put back in the bottle where drivers with smartphones are concerned. Nothing seems to have gotten through to drivers that they might kill someone if they focus more on the little screen than what’s happening out the front window.
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What’s on MPR News today? 3/1/18

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2018, 6:00 AM Mar 1, 2018
2

Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News Read more →

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