Canada has been pretty much on a roll the last few years. Why, the great white north has looked positively appealing when viewed from the American lens.
But an ugly reality of life in Canada was illuminated today when the Supreme Court there upheld a ban on transporting any more than 12 pints of beer from one province. Twelve pints? Oh, Canada! Read more →
We are left to decide whether we want to be smarter and die with a heart attack sooner. Or live longer and have less brain function. Read more →
There’s always at least one guy at baseball games who assumes other people want to look at this sort of thing Read more →
Every patient’s health insurance plan varies, and the costs — and so the copays — of a prescription can soar overnight, so there’s no way for doctors to know whether a prescription is right for a patient.
Oh, sure, medically it’s comparatively easy to know. But if a patient can’t afford the cure, what’s the point of the exercise?
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The State of Hockey isn’t playoff caliber this year, or just about any year previous. But the fans keep buying up all the tickets at the Xcel Center anyway. Read more →
Here are the topics, stories, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Maybe, not quite, but NewsCut has been added to the MPR News Update podcast. It’ll update every day around noon. It will also be available on Alexa as part of the Flash Briefing. Read more →
The era of $2 gasoline may be over — again. The experts today predicted gasoline will shoot past $3 a gallon in the next few weeks in many states with the nationwide average of $2.80.
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Sometimes a news story just makes you go ‘huh’.
So it is with the story from Alabama, where a train full of feces from New Jersey and New York has been torturing a town for several months and the town is sick of it. Read more →
The CBC has tracked down Keelan Moxley to find out how she felt when boys ended up with pucks that were intended for her.
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Trucks. It’s always the trucks causing the havoc on Minnesota highways after a storm.
The trucks sit out in the blizzards, accumulating an armory of ice and snow and then hit the highways with predictable results, as a Dakota County ranger learned anew. Read more →
In a book of women who fly, Tammie Jo Shults recalled her senior year in high school in 1979 when an airman — a retired colonel — gave a lecture on aviation.
She was the only girl to show up and the colonel asked her if she was lost.
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In the 11 years of NewsCut, Wally Englund stands out as one of the most memorable people I’ve met in the course of learning of and telling their stories. Read more →
Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today if you’re wise enough to listen to MPR News. Read more →
Personality, comedy, and the buttoned-down world of serious public radio were never really friends until Kasell proved you could be both a serious news person and funny. Read more →
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