Bob Collins
Two stories with tough decisions to make, are politicians’ kids perfect, do the ‘burbs get better buses, and what does your fridge say about you?
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Five by 8
The money behind the tea party, what would you do in a nine-day traffic jam, building community in bad times, could you spend four months trapped with your work colleagues, and power from pee.
What’s the strangest thing on your school supplies list? What’s it like to be homeless? Farewell Tettegouche arch. Steam engines in western Minnesota. And four protests that won’t depress you as much as the one in New York yesterday.
The greatest speech ever given, the non-disappearing disappearing oil, the coal plant controversy on the Iron Range, construction in downtown St. Paul, and a new parachuting record.
Considering emerging adults, the hero whose weapon was a bagpipe, a new golden age of editorial cartoons, affording solar, and tango in the Twin Cities.
The life of a sperm-donor child examined, sensitivity and the First Amendment, the love of a good siren, a ban on satire, and the secrets of outdoor photography.
The class of 2014 isn’t like us, the mosque issue isn’t really about a mosque, do you have the right to fly a flag, the plastic bag movie, and the Anoka salad shooter.
The issue that won’t go away, how money is buying justice, would you unplug for a week, where’s Peter Sagal, and renting a bike in Minneapolis.
The aerial campfire, how birth order affects you, Rubik’s Cube in 20 moves, and the fastest pastor in Redwood Falls.
Al Franken can’t catch a break, county fair photos, in search of typos, the blind football championships, and feeding the homeless because your mother said to.
Lessons from primary day (Five by 8: 8/11/10)
Who hasn’t wanted to be Steve Slater, the Ground Zero sacred ground nobody cares about, voting the Dark Ages way, Winona’s 12-year-old drunk driver, and reconsidering horseshoes.
Twenty-five years after the Hormel strike, mosque wars, escaping the heat, summer camp bullies, and who’s got storm chasers in the ‘death pool’?
Back-patting after the Koua Fong Lee tragedy, new allegations of anti-gay actions by Target, your personality is set by first grade, get your junk out of my basement, and the mermaid’s new top.
More reaction to the same-sex marriage ruling, when video games don’t rot your brain, the Brainerd dishwasher mystery, 40 million years without sex, and the secrets for living well.