Bob Collins
What will be the most creative use of household goods to declare ‘dibs’ at parade viewing routes in Minnesota? Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
From now on, if a candidate doesn’t show up for a political debate, the debate will go on without him/her. Read more →
Christopher Ingraham, the Washington Post reporter who started a riotous response to declaring Red Lake County the worst place to live in America decided to move there. And he likes it, the Grand Forks Herald says. Read more →
The New York Times today looks at the country’s welcoming tone, and its potential pitfalls, following up on how some of the refugees are doing. Read more →
Tonight at the Hollywood Bowl, Keillor will step onto the stage as host for the last time. The show is being recorded for broadcast tomorrow night.
It is, a critic says, a more nuanced show than the show’s detractors acknowledge. Read more →
If someone didn’t do a podcast, someone would still be shrugging their shoulders at the suggestion that maybe an innocent person was wrongly imprisoned. Read more →
Mark O. Schultz, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., a bank executive; and Steven J. Schultz, 51, of Brooklyn Center, a Medtronic employee, were killed in the 2014 crash in western Minnesota. Read more →
Perhaps it figures that when a Republican and Democrat finally get together on bipartisan legislation in Congress, it intends to enrich fat cats and stiff people trying to make a living.
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Chris Rosati isn’t the first person with ALS to declare himself ‘the luckiest man on earth.’ Read more →
‘You’re only as happy as your unhappiest child.’ Anyone who’s ever been a parent will recognize that as, perhaps, the most accurate statement on parenting ever uttered.
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Miguel Sano uses his head to get an out in a minor league rehab assignment game. Read more →
We curmudgeonly types live for those moments when a friend or colleague (sometimes they’re one and the same) tells us that we’re right. [Insert cliched reference to it not happening that often here].
The subject: The transportation backwater that is Minnesota.
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If Dick Bancroft hadn’t come down from Saint Paul’s Summit Hill District as a young man, he might never have known the ‘invisible minority’ he champions so fiercely.
A lot of journalists, including a few at a local radio network, have come through the Minnesota Daily, the University of Minnesota newspaper. It will now be printed only twice a week. Read more →
Here’s a reminder that people who don’t get anywhere near enough attention are often the ones who make the biggest difference.
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