Bob Collins
There had to be a lot of pressure on Zachary, Aaron, Nigel, and Nick Wade of Ohio. They are quadruplets and, presumably, none of them wanted to be the one who wasn’t accepted by an Ivy League school. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for April 2017
If you expected Bekah and Derrick Quirin to give up on the Appalachian Trail after a few days, forget it Read more →
Nicole LaPoint argued discrimination after an orthodontist pulled a job offer to her after learning she was two months pregnant and hoped to take maternity time. The orthodontist argued the amount of time off was the concern. Justices today said it’s only discrimination under state law if LaPoint could prove she lost the job because she was pregnant. Read more →
It must have been embarrassing for the school system in Pittsburg, Kansas when a group of young journalists did the job the adults who run the system should’ve done. Read more →
The kids at Forestview Middle School’s STEM team in Baxter, Minn., were getting pretty antsy to see what would happen if they launched a balloon. But bad weather through February kept it on terra firma.
There was pressure involved, with the temperatures warming in lake country. Read more →
Watch it while you can because this online ad for Pepsi isn’t going to be around long. Read more →
PBS has found an unlikely ally in its fight to save its funding from a plan to send it to the military: a military general.
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There was a time — a long time ago — when packages wouldn’t be delivered without a signature. If you weren’t home, you made a deal with the neighbors and left a note for the delivery person. Back then, there weren’t people like this woman driving around neighborhoods, as she did this week in St. Paul’s Como Park neighborhood, stalking the delivery truck. Read more →
A construction company in La Crosse, Wis., is taking down employment billboards that featured a #NoSnowflakes hashtag, but not because of pressure. Read more →
Nicholas Ramirez, of Worthington, Minn., a high school sophomore and a fan of Green Day, experienced the kind of moment the other night that most people can only dream about. Read more →
There’s nothing better at the end of the day than coming home to a wild turkey on your couch. Insert obvious joke here. Read more →
President Trump’s travel ban may not be having any effect on the threat of terrorism but it’s doing a number on the arts. Read more →
Halima Aden, of St. Cloud, is a 19-year-old model who recently was walking the runways of New York and Milan. But she’s back in St. Cloud cleaning hospital rooms now. Read more →
Gov. Mark Dayton has signed a bill that protects people when their cars are used by drunk drivers. The authorities help themselves to property when crimes are committed — it’s called “forfeiture” and even when when someone convicted of DUI uses a vehicle without permission, the innocent owner can lose it. In 2015, nearly 7,000 Read more →
It is opening day in the baseball season for the local nine, a day which reveals that hope does not spring eternal in the human breast after all. The Twins will be a terrible team again after losing 103 games last year and not doing much in the off-season.
But it’s still baseball, the grass is still green, and it’s a game in which you don’t forget people from your past. Read more →