‘The world is watching’ is one of those cliches uttered so often that we can occasionally forget that, indeed, the world is watching.
The kids of Maple Grove, who responded to racist graffiti last week by posting welcoming letters to other students, were likely focused only on their fellow students.
But the world was watching. Read more →
Melvin Laird, the secretary of defense under Richard Nixon, died today.
A lot of old-timers probably weren’t even aware the Carlton College alum was still alive, except that his name has come up a few times in the last week as an example of why a president’s cabinet choices are pretty important.
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In public radio, ‘politicians and pointyheads’ tend to dominate. So it can be jarring to hear from people who are neither. Thus the term public radio.
There were some flaws in how NPR covered the campaign, sure, but it would be unfortunate if people walk away from the notion that hearing from people living their lives is something requiring apology. Read more →
If you’re like a lot of people on planet Earth this week, you’ve spent a lot of time looking at the moon, which is closer to Earth this week than the last time it was this close to Earth. Read more →
It was considered a criminal offense to try to pay taxes with a bad check in Minnesota. Until today. Read more →
Katherine Cramer, a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, has been traveling to specific towns in rural Wisconsin for about 10 years and she says the results of last week’s election was about respect — or the lack of it — for rural areas more than anything else. Read more →
Frank Gaffney is no fan of Muslims. He’s one of the ringleaders of the effort to spread the rumor that Barack Obama was Muslim. Read more →
Things seem to be going so well for Ingraham that we’re starting to wonder whether things were be the same if he weren’t a celebrity, if he hadn’t once called Red Lake Falls the ‘absolute worst place to live in America’, whether the people hadn’t invited him to see it firsthand, and whether his decision to move his family to the community hadn’t been so widely publicized? Read more →
Mose Allison combined Delta blues with jazz, and accommodated the British Invasion. Read more →
We never tire of these moments when America’s kids show that what old-timers often think about them is dead wrong. Read more →
Former Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe sure can hold a grudge. Read more →
By around this time next week it might not seem like it, but those of you traveling through MSP International Airport are walking on the hallowed ground of one of the nation’s best airports, a new study claims. Tenth-best, to be exact. Read more →
Words of encouragement are being scrawled in chalk on the Twin City’s sidewalks and driveways.
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Now that we’re done with evaluating the media’s fascination with polls and the horse race of presidential campaigns, which seem to prevent many substantive stories about candidates from rising above the noise, let’s talk about another important election day component that is obsessed with politics as sport: You. Read more →
Gwen Ifill co-anchors one of the smartest news programs in America that probably isn’t as well watched as it should be, but for those who value a calm and intelligent discussions about the day’s issue, she was a national treasure.
She died today at 61. Read more →
Bob Collins