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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for January 2019

This or That

Maplewood market’s woes challenge a community to step up

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 17, 2019, 8:39 AM Jan 17, 2019
22

If the people of Maplewood ever lament the loss of a locally-run market, they have only themselves to blame if they don’t step up in some fashion to help a couple victimized by bad luck and bad people.
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Education · Sports

Chasing NFL money can wait for U of M player

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 17, 2019, 7:11 AM Jan 17, 2019
20

Tyler Johnson, the University of Minnesota receiver, is the kind of star athlete that more people should notice — not because of his football skills, but because he knows the value of an education. Read more →

What’s on MPR News – 1/17/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 17, 2019, 6:00 AM Jan 17, 2019
27

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

Politics

No getting away from politics at high school basketball game

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2019, 2:18 PM Jan 16, 2019
65

Is there some Minnesota passive aggressiveness at work in the displaying of a Trump campaign sign at a basketball game between a predominantly white team and a predominantly black one? Or is it just a love a politics? Read more →

Arts & Culture

Here’s what you can learn by painting a giant mural in South Dakota

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2019, 9:28 AM Jan 16, 2019
12

‘If we could all slow down, take a moment and understand each other, we would see others for who they really are,’ film producer Emad Rashidi says. Read more →

This or That

Sheriff warns of scam fundraiser for alleged Closs killer

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2019, 8:12 AM Jan 16, 2019
5

In the category of people are horrible, we give you this from the Douglas County, Wis., sheriff Read more →

This or That

Response to Gillette ad proves some men are better

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2019, 7:10 AM Jan 16, 2019

The now infamous Gillette ad audaciously suggesting that men treat women with respect and police the ones who don’t, has accomplished its mission of opening a discussion. It also required us — again — to listen to the sound of a million hissyfits by men who don’t have much to offer after ‘hey, baby!’ Read more →

What’s on MPR News – 1/16/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2019, 6:00 AM Jan 16, 2019
23

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

People doing good · Politics

It’s all good for furloughed worker who rationed her medicine

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2019, 3:50 PM Jan 15, 2019
13

Her insulin supply has been restored. Her faith in people, too, perhaps. Read more →

Arts & Culture

The day a guy with 170 Twitter followers changed the world of information forever

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2019, 1:53 PM Jan 15, 2019
5

Maybe Twitter would have eventually become an accepted source of news and information if Janis Krums hadn’t been on a ferry in the Hudson River when he was the first one to tell the world an airliner has landed in it.
Read more →

Crime and Justice

Mankato mom didn’t secure car seat, then her kid fell out of the vehicle

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2019, 9:30 AM Jan 15, 2019
41

Child safety seats aren’t child safety seats unless you have them properly fastened to the car’s seat belts. Observe. Don’t do it like this. Read more →

People are jerks

If you can’t tip something nice…

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2019, 8:43 AM Jan 15, 2019
50

Well, isn’t this sweet. Someone left a tip for a server at a sports bar in Sioux Falls on Saturday night and the message came through loud and clear. Read more →

This or That

Our desperation for human contact

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2019, 7:06 AM Jan 15, 2019
11

We are desperate for human contact. We are desperate for friendship.
Why do we put so much energy into achieving just the opposite? Read more →

What’s on MPR News – 1/15/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2019, 6:00 AM Jan 15, 2019
0

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

This or That

Is toxic masculinity too hot for men to handle?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2019, 3:09 PM Jan 14, 2019
112

‘The best a man can get’, the long-time advertising slogan of Gillette, is being turned on its head in the #MeToo era. Read more →

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