Bob CollinsThe Oil Patch isn’t going anywhere, at least not yet. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for March 2015
Miss winter, did you?
The mild winter in flyover country might have erased just how cruddy the season can be. Read more →
Buried deep — far too deep — in a Woodbury Bullein story about Woodbury’s Valley Crossing Community School, a school operated by three area school districts — is a different twist on the issue of how a teacher is laid off. Read more →
Can’t we all just get along? Not in two communities in the East Metro, which have become the poster children for dysfunctional government and might provide some insight into why reasonable and talented people don’t want to take on jobs in city government.
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Though it was incomplete and not entirely factual, last month’s story in The Atlantic declaring Minneapolis ‘a miracle’ is doing wonders for the Twin Cities’ image. Read more →
The Mall of America built dossiers on demonstrators with Black Lives Matter prior to the December protest that resulted in the arrest of about a dozen people, The Intercept is reporting today. Read more →
The Minnesota Supreme Court today upheld Bloomington’s right to deny a permit for expansion of a senior care facility, a blow to some groups who said it gives neighbors of projects too much power. Read more →
A little news from the world of football is just what the doctor ordered.
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High-speed rail between Rochester and the Twin Cities is never going to happen at the snail’s pace efforts have moved in recent years.
A Rochester group apparently has the solution — cut the government out of it. Read more →
Come and get me, coppers. I’m going to bet on the NCAA tournament if an office pool should be created by unnamed ne’er-do-wells known to inhabit the cubicles of public radio. Read more →
At the invitation of Starbucks new program to encourage its customers to have a conversation and debate about race, Quartz writers Melvin Backman and Zach Wener-Fligner have a question to start: ‘ What’s the deal with you and predominantly white neighborhoods, Starbucks?’
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Another March day in Minnesota. Another person who had to be rescued from a floating ice flow. Read more →
You’ve got to admire the persistence of Deb Anderson, who was rewarded today with news that a woman killed by a state trooper in 1980 has been identified. Read more →
You can forgive your local Pioneer Press employee for being a little nervous today. The sale of his/her newspaper appears at hand. It’s a buyout firm, which means they’re not that interested in great journalism. Read more →
The Dropkick Murphys played a concert for a bunch of roadies Monday night. Read more →