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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for August 2018

Sports

Soccer fans pepper kids with stuffed toys

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2018, 12:18 PM Aug 20, 2018
1

Kids from Erasmus Sophia Children’s Hospital in Rotterdam were invited to watch the soccer game between Feyenoord and Excelsior on Sunday.

It was a nice time for the kids who got to stand on the pitch with their favorite players before the game started. Read more →

Economy

With lift bridge’s closing, times are too good for some business in Stillwater

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2018, 10:17 AM Aug 20, 2018
18

In Stillwater, the downtown is busier than ever now that the new bridge in Bayport is open, removing the nightmare traffic that clogged downtown. Read more →

This or That

Buildings as billboards

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2018, 9:19 AM Aug 20, 2018
41

There isn’t anything in America anymore that can’t be turned into a billboard. Now 3M has upped the game, turning its Maplewood headquarters into a billboard, using the same product it makes that wraps light-rail cars, for example, into rolling ads. Read more →

Sports

Sister Mary brings the heat

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2018, 8:19 AM Aug 20, 2018
14

If Sister Mary Sobieck, who threw out the first pitch at Saturday’s Chicago White Sox game, looks familiar to you, you’re probably an old-time Northlander. Read more →

Regional history

The ’20s aren’t coming back: Pillsbury mansion to be demolished

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2018, 7:08 AM Aug 20, 2018
55

It’s hard to figure out who the bad person here that everyone seems to be aghast at. Everyone may not want to be looking at all the new houses, but everyone seems to be buying them. Read more →

What’s on MPR News – 8/20/18

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2018, 6:00 AM Aug 20, 2018
4

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

Health · Politics

Unlike ’16, Democrats embrace health care on the campaign trail

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2018, 1:24 PM Aug 17, 2018
25

Americans didn’t like health care much until they were set to lose it last year in the initial wave of attempts to rollback the Affordable Care Act.

That should’ve told the Democrats something. It did. Read more →

Sports

Here’s a triple play you don’t see every century

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2018, 11:01 AM Aug 17, 2018
3

This is why baseball is confusing to teach to a novice. Even the players often don’t know what’s going on. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Aretha, we hardly knew you

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2018, 9:25 AM Aug 17, 2018
7

For all her pop hits, it’s the story of an aria that reminds us that we didn’t really know Aretha Franklin. Read more →

Health

Hibbing girl, 12, a face of the medical marijuana debate, dies

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2018, 8:17 AM Aug 17, 2018
6

Amelia Weaver’s quality of life improved after medical marijuana became available to her in Minnesota. Read more →

Regional history

A queen of the Dairy Queen dies at 90

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2018, 7:09 AM Aug 17, 2018
8

When Phyllis and Bob Litherland started the Dairy Queen in Moorhead in 1949, their friends told them fast food was just a fad that would never last. They didn’t listen, even if it meant they had to sleep in the backroom while pouring their money into the place.
Read more →

What’s on MPR News – 8/17/18

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2018, 5:48 AM Aug 17, 2018
1

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

Health

A country rallies around Esther the Wonder Pig

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 16, 2018, 5:03 PM Aug 16, 2018
0

Humanity to one another is nice and all but what really sets a heart atwitter is a good animal in need.

How else can we explain the story of Esther the Wonder Pig, whose illness prompted people in Canada to raise $650,000 so that a CT scanner big enough to fit the pig could be purchased. One wasn’t available in Canada. Read more →

This or That

A million miles later, a Blue Line train chugs along

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 16, 2018, 1:57 PM Aug 16, 2018
39

There’s nothing we enjoy more than a nice, round number.
Read more →

Crime and Justice

No windfall for absentee father in son’s death, Wisconsin judge says

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 16, 2018, 10:32 AM Aug 16, 2018

In their race to pass legislation, lawmakers often don’t have or don’t take enough time to fully think about what they’re passing. Then, it’s up to courts to clean up the mess. Read more →

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