Motorola has spent a lot of money trying to get you addicted to your smartphone. It’s worked splendidly; people are spending most of their days looking at their phone.
So color us skeptical about a new series of ads from the tech giant lamenting that what they wanted to happen happened. Read more →
After its owner was stabbed, a dog stood vigil outside a hospital for four months, not knowing its owner was dead. Read more →
Anytime you can marry science, fire, smoke and David Bowie, it’s a good thing.
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Rollingstone, Minn., is dying. When its only bar burned down two years ago, the community lost its meeting place. Now, it’s school is closing . Read more →
Employees of the Diocese of La Crosse had faith that their pension plan would help them retire. It won’t. The Diocese has canceled the pension program and will cut a one-time check for the workers instead. Read more →
‘Representation matters,’ Jessica Curry writes in today’s New York Times.
She should know. This is her daughter, Parker, who is at the center of an instantly iconic photograph at the National Portrait Gallery. Read more →
Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
The twist this year: Assessing how great the kids’ lives have become because they made the hockey hair all-star team. Read more →
Every two years, the graves and names on a nearby cemetery wall are decorated with photos; 74 Minnesotans have no accompanying photograph. Dutch and American volunteers are trying to find images in time for this year’s tribute. Read more →
NZK Productions has a permit to shoot Saturday on the state Capitol grounds. NZK is perhaps best known as the firm behind the ABC TV spectacle, “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” which already has an intriguing Minnesota connection. Read more →
March 9, 2018 (Subject to change as events dictate) Until 9 a.m. – Morning Edition Marissa and Hannah Brandt are sisters and ice hockey Olympians. They’ve returned to Minnesota; How arming teachers fails students of color; the impact of Gary Cohn’s exit on Wall Street; Mississippi’s abortion bill passes; a StoryCorps featuring climate scientists; and Read more →
Is it possible in America for people to get ahead without someone falling back? Read more →
When Shaeen Pasha’s mother sat outside a Brooklyn brownstone — jobless, penniless, and about to be homeless — the neighborhood mostly ignored her. And then a white woman — “the Landlady” — said she had a room and would provide shelter.
She’s thought about her a lot lately. Read more →
Northeastern University’s women’s basketball team’s bus got stuck in the snow during a blizzard yesterday in Philadelphia. But their women. Women handle stuff. Consider it handled.
No problem. They’re women. Women handle stuff. Consider it handled.
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It’s International Women’s Day and social media is paying appropriate tribute to the women whom history has forgotten. Meanwhile, NPR documents the life of a woman who’s being forgotten while she’s struggling to stay alive. Read more →
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