Bob Collins
Neither Representatives Dan Schoen nor Tony Cornish have taken the obvious hint from colleagues to go, prompting the Star Tribune to call for the Legislature to begin expulsion proceedings. Read more →
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Politics
Vito Perillo probably isn’t getting much attention in the listing of important election results around the country, but his lesson is a good one nonetheless. Read more →
One of the reasons we have people in public service we don’t like is because we have no interest in being an alternative. Read more →
Upon further review, perhaps it wasn’t in Juli Briskman’s best interest to exercise her freedom of expression when on a recent bike ride that occurred when the president’s motorcade passed.
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Most morning shows on commercial radio should never be taken too seriously, but apparently an election in Grand Forks could be influenced by a satirical, if juvenile, bit by a local radio station’s shock jocks. Part of the problem, perhaps, is the gullibility of listeners. Read more →
All the usual elements are there in the latest twist in the ongoing debate in this country over protest and expression: the kid who sits during the Pledge of Allegiance, the one who stands while wearing an American flag T-shirt, the assumption of authority to teach a little respect, as the person who posted the video from Winter Mills High School in Westminster, Md., characterized it. Read more →
Residents of a 30-unit apartment complex are being thrown out because too many police calls came from residents there. Not all residents, probably, but everyone goes because the city has yanked the rental permit of the building owner. Read more →
It’s not easy talking to grieving loved ones when someone dies and I’ve made a good living doing it. There’s not much you can say and it’s pretty easy to say either the wrong thing, or something that sounds insincere. Read more →
There’s little chance that Ken Stern, who once headed NPR as its CEO, actually knew much about the news process, the decisions, the writing, the political leanings of its staff, and maybe even the names of a large number of people who worked for him. Read more →
The word war between the campaign of St. Paul mayoral candidate Melvin Carter III and the city’s police union took its predictable next step today after the police union federation’s vice president made a campaign issue out of a break-in at Carter’s Summit-University home Read more →
The City Council in Eau Claire has put an end to any breastfeeding during meetings. On a 7-to-1 vote yesterday, the council banned from the dais at City Hall children and anyone else not elected to be there. Read more →
A proposed ban on refugees in St. Cloud forces us to examine the question, ”what does it mean to say ‘welcome’ in Minnesota?” Read more →
As someone who was also kicked out of Cub Scouts (apparently I didn’t take the threat of my peers in the Soviet Union seriously), I feel you Ames Mayfield. Read more →
The alleged voter suppression effort in Wisconsin is now virtually bullet proof. Its beneficiaries are now in charge of the judiciary. Its patrons are running the elections. Read more →
The American news media is wasting its time informing the country’s citizens. Read more →