Bob CollinsStarbucks is serving up a conversation about racism while making your coffee. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for March 2015
The New York Times today chronicles how the financial industry is ignoring laws protecting military members from losing cars and other possessions to lenders. Read more →
In the wake of its story yesterday about resistance to affordable housing in the suburbs, the Star Tribune rightly editorializes today for affordable housing that’s not concentrated in existing areas of poverty.
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The Minnesota Vikings today acknowledged that they’ve been eliminated from consideration to own a new Major League Soccer franchise in Minneapolis, putting the ownership of the Minnesota United team solidly in the driver’s seat for a franchise here.
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Now that Bud Selig is no longer the commissioner of Major League Baseball, Pete Rose might be allowed back. Read more →
On Saturday in Dubai, an eagle set a record for the highest-ever recorded bird flight from a man-made structure — the Burj Khalifa. Read more →
Who’s going to live in the McMansions the parents of millennials are building in the Twin Cities suburbs? Apparently, it won’t be the millennials.
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Before we bid adieu to winter, we tip our hat to the season that allows us to start a week with a paragraph like this in today’s Mankato Free Press about the inaugural Duct Tape Derby at Mt. Kato on Saturday.
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Back in the day when our Vietnam experience made the United States skittish about going to war, this date in 1968 is a big reason why. Read more →
There is no mandatory standard testing for science in Minnesota, and it shows around this time of the year when people insist on ice fishing despite warm temperatures, ignoring not only science, but warnings not to go ice fishing at this time of the year. Read more →
I don’t really have much reason to post this video other than to point out how utterly brown things are in Minnesota, and, apparently, how dry.
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Cow Pi
Look at this face. How can this not be your favorite in the Iditarod? Read more →
The university is the first institution to act to comply with Gov. Scott Walker’s cut in higher education funding. It’s not pretty. Read more →
In La Crosse, spring is a time when a young person’s fancy turns to not stepping on all the needles and syringes on the sidewalks.
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