Bob CollinsWhile you think about whether you really want to go to work today, let’s just plant this idea in your head: Run a pie shop, instead. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
General Mills has done it again with its latest ad for Cheerios. Read more →
Among the more dispiriting debates for journalists in recent years is the one that’s picked up steam in the last few days: Should news organizations name the man who opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon last week. His name, by the way, was Chris Harper-Mercer. This should be a no-brainer. It’s the Read more →
Last Thursday, New York Yankees pitcher C.C. Sabathia pitched five innings to win the game that clinched a wild card spot for the Yankees. Read more →
A week ago, we were pretty enthralled with the moon, which provided a show during a lunar eclipse. It was like old times. Excitement about the moon.
It’s probably coincidence, though, that Kipp Teague, an information technology specialist in Virgina, has done more in the last week to remind us of a time when the moon was special, than any human has since a small group of men traveled there.
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A Washington Post story reports 70 percent of kids stop playing team sports by the time they turn 13. They’re not good enough to play on the elite teams that have taken over the focus of parents and adults. Read more →
The Kennedy clan is circling the wagons after Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Edward Kennedy, released his book detailing his struggles with substance abuse and bipolar disorder.
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The New York Times says the barrage of ads for fantasy sports sites offering multi-million dollar riches isn’t what Congress had in mind when it exempted fantasy sports from a law making online gambling illegal. Read more →
Oh, your state doesn’t have a Supreme Court justice (now retired) who blows his tuba to support marathoners?
Mine does. Read more →
It’s probably not earth-shattering news that love can conquer all but love can conquer all.
Taylor Morris and Danielle Kelly are getting married on Saturday down in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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This video, from an Arizona Diamondbacks broadcast earlier this week, was like blood in the water for the professionally outraged and judgmental — in order words: Twitter and Facebook.
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The athletic department coaches who still collect a paycheck at the University of Minnesota Duluth have broken a long silence after nearly a year of controversy surrounding athletic director Josh Berlo, who removed several high-profile female coaches from the ranks.
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Last Saturday, Delta Airlines provided a flight from Minneapolis to the Museum of Flight in Seattle, crewed entirely by women and whose passengers were all girls. The effort is part of an extraordinary ongoing mission in the aviation community to show girls that there are careers in aviation. Let the record show that it’s 2015 and these efforts are still needed. Read more →
Not having much interest in marathons, we’re content to stand on the sidelines and watch the face-off between its participants and Black Lives Matter, which says it may disrupt the Twin Cities Marathon this weekend. Read more →
If the child protection system in Minnesota still seems functional to you — despite the Star Tribune’s ongoing series proving that it’s not — then consider just four paragraphs in reporter Brandon Stahl’s story today on Cynthia Kiewatt, 43, who has had several chances to prove she’s fit to care for her two-year-old son. Read more →