The suicide of a well-known person has opened the window on a national dialogue on mental health and depression, a traditionally short period during which we are afforded the opportunity to learn something about the health scourge from which we typically turn away. Read more →
We are willing to overlook “the wave,” but let’s try to nip a sudden phenomenon in the bud. Cellphone lights. Read more →
In the category of attempts to apologize for your racism, a South Dakota legislator has provided a perfect example of trying to make the obvious go away. Read more →
Your kindergarteners are going to be singing new nursery rhymes. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
It is unlikely that the Minnesota Legislature envisioned a case of a son suing his father when it passed a bill years ago to encourage landowners to open their land to the public for hunting. Can your son be “the public”? Read more →
Ahmed Burhan’s victory caps a recent pattern of Americans doing better in the competition in recent years, according to Gulf News, which says this is the first time someone from the United States has won the prize, worth about $68,000. Read more →
Easton Partridge, 6, of Chisago Lakes said he couldn’t think of anyone to invite to his birthday party because he didn’t think he had any friends. Then he found out he does. Read more →
It’s the latest community where someone is trying to do something about access to mental health care, something that everyone gets behind elsewhere until — we’re looking at you, Forest Lake — people object. Read more →
Take Wendy Dodek’s problem with Fidelity Investments, which rejected her $6,500 check (buggywhip #1) for her Roth IRA even though it was mailed (buggywhip #2) before the April 17th deadline.
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All Sioux Falls Christian senior Kate Wynja had to do yesterday to win the second round of the Class A state golf meet and her second high school championship was stay quiet.
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If a congressman holds a listening session and only one constituent shows up, is it a failure of participatory democracy or a fine example of the beauty of the democratic process? Read more →
Wednesday June 6, 2018 (Subject to change as events dictate) 9 a.m. – MPR News with Kerri Miller DFL growing pains. The DFL convention was, by external accounts, a success. Rep. Erin Murphy clinched the endorsement and announced her running mate, Rep. Erin Maye Quade. But behind the scene was chaos, a call for no Read more →
There is no sports team in Minnesota that leads like the Minnesota Lynx.
Now, they’re showing the world an alternative to the hackneyed invite to the White House. Read more →
While we’re aware that people will read more into this than is necessary, we will pass this along anyway in the acknowledgment that the last days of school, on perfect June days, it’s great to be a kid. Read more →
Bob Collins