Bob Collins
The City Council last night voted not to ban the game-playing in city parks, specifically around the veteran’s memorial next to a playground and band shell in the city. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
You’ll probably see more of this picture in newspapers and on websites. It’s the headstone of the soldier whose parents have been criticized by Donald Trump. You won’t hear the story of the soldier on whose grave the photographers trampled to get it. You should. Read more →
It should come as no surprise — although it still does — that the preferred Republican candidate for president of the United States thought it made some sense to attack Gold Star parents. It doesn’t take a political science degree to see the stupidity of doing so. Read more →
We’ve seen enough nonsensical real political commentary from the mainstream media during this campaign to dismiss The Simpsons version, just because it’s a cartoon.
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It doesn’t seem possible that it’s been three years since Shaina Briscoe , an avid and well-known Twin Cities cyclist, started out on a race to the lakes of the Twin Cities, and sustained a severe brain injury when she and an SUV collided in Minneapolis. Read more →
People of Winona: Return to your lawns before someone gets hurt. The City Council in Winona is voting tonight to ban Pokemon playing in the city’s veteran’s park, which was built by selling pavers honoring veterans. Read more →
Hans Wronka, the Duluth man who set out in July to find the airplane in which his grandfather died in World War II, has discovered dog tags in a hay stack. Read more →
I doubt you’ll find anything particularly thrilling here but a few people have asked to see another video of what it looks like flying into Oshkosh during the AirVenture show, when it becomes the busiest airport in the world.
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There was a lot of sentimentality as I browsed social networks on Wednesday night during President Barack Obama’s speech to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, which naturally allowed me to think about how I’ll remember the last eight years. Read more →
We suppose by now we should just accept as a given that when it rains, you should be nowhere near Fairview Avenue beneath the Highway 36 overpass.
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Sean Kehren doesn’t want to tell you where he’s from.
What matters is he’s going places. Read more →
The hit public radio show that lived longer than one of its hosts will be no more after next year, Current.org, the public media newspaper reports. Read more →
The Chicago Tribune is rightly getting some pushback today for its tone-deaf front page coverage of last evening’s historic moment when a woman was nominated to be the president of the United States by a major party. Read more →
Honk if you got up yesterday morning thinking it would be the day a national TV network would proudly feature an essay that included a reference to the comfortable life of being a slave in Washington. Read more →
An artist’s proposal to build a labyrinth in Delano as part of a public arts project is on hold for now after city leaders raised concern that it has religious overtones. Read more →