Bob Collins
How do we get kids to make better decisions behind the wheel, chasing tornadoes, giving up U.S. citizenship, avoiding aliens, and holding website commenters to a higher standard.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Five by 8
The legislative session features a buffet of priorities, YouTube parents, joys of the state fair rewarded, fun with the NFL draft, and transplanting faces.
Why you can still pray if you want to, tracking appliance rebates, how we stopped being pigs in the parking lot, how gay do you have to be to play softball in the gay softball world series, and beating the casino at blackjack.
What did the aviation shutdown tell us about us, CFL light bulbs, outlaw trees in Albuquerque, why brain exercises don’t work, and a trip back to the old Minnesota.
Paying for organs, mysteries of the autistic mind, the genius of Dorothy Height, unloading school buildings, and the mascot tragedy.
We have no patience for nature, a virtual Boston Maraton, the difference between Obama and Bush, bikers vs. bikers, and what Bachmann and Pelosi have in common.
The Midwest’s sky show. Ready to pay for a Vikes stadium Minneapolis? The curse of high expectations. Letters from the Tea Party. And why your allergies are worse this year.
Newer ballparks are already needing facelifts, why classical music is alive, from Minneapolis to Mt. Everest, DFL’s November prospects considered, and why emotions outlast memories that drive them.
Has Target Field changed minds, remembering Jack Agnew, is TV news part of law enforcement, a Wisconsin prosecutors fight against sex education, and powerline blues.
1) A great job of reporting by the Star Tribune leads the news this morning. It’s the story of the kid in Hastings who pulled a gun in school this week. It could’ve been a massive tragedy had he not loaded the wrong ammunition. This young man was adopted from Russia. The parents gave up Read more →
1) Why do teams want new baseball stadiums? To make it more expensive for fans to go to baseball games. Team Marketing Report has released its annual index of average ticket prices, and has found the average price of a ticket at Target Field is 45-percent more than the average price at the Metrodome. That’s Read more →
1) Two news stories in the last day or so have certainly put the public image of teachers in the spotlight. First, a meeting at the Capitol yesterday had the governor calling the state’s education system “a relic.” Political and education leaders were considering whether to apply for another round of federal grants to improve Read more →
1) Sports and drug wags in the Twin Cities are wondering whether an unvetted CNN iReport about marijuana use at Target Field is iTrue. An iReporter claims a man spent part of the game carving out a red pepper and then used it to be “the first person to smoke marijuana at Target Field.” Alerted, Read more →
How questions skew poll results, marketing the the toddler’s brain, two media approaches to suicide, a look at singing at ballgames, and the obligatory mention of the iPad.