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Opal Olson, 94, of Ortonville, died last Thursday. Her departure might have gone unnoticed, but for the fact she changed the world, or at least the piece of it that she could.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for December 2018
Stop me if you’ve heard this before. A farm couple builds a sports complex in the belief that people will come. And they do. In Hendricks, MN., however, it’s not baseball and corn. It’s a farm shed and gymnastics that’s gotten people to sit up and take notice. Read more →
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A lot of people had to work over Christmas and it’s not much fun being away from family on the holiday.
Hal Vaughn would have none of it for his daughter, Pierce, who is a flight attendant for Delta Airlines. Read more →
Snickers salad? Why, it screams ‘charming 88-year-old family matriarch.’
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‘A lot of people think Muslim girls don’t know how to play,’ their coach says.
They know how to play. They’re 6-1 on the season so far.
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It doesn’t take much to guess the exact wording Nichole Parsons used on her sign on her dorm window indicating that Nazis aren’t welcome on the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst, but the focus on poor wording falls on the campus official who suggested she take it down. Read more →
It was a relaxing and enjoyable day on Tuesday, even for those people doing the hard work of repairing the world.
Like members of Duluth’s Temple Israel, who served dinner at the Union Gospel Mission on Christmas. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Merry Christmas! Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
New soccer stadium dazzles
But here’s the big question we have: How many stinking pictures of a guy talking on the phone do the White House press photographers need to take? Read more →
I wrote last week that I’m not posting the most viewed stories of the year on NewsCut this year, but I will post the story of the year — the one I wrote about on this date in 2015. Nothing much has changed. My story of the year in 2018, is the same one it was in 2015 Read more →
Tonight is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 orbit of the moon. No human had ever seen its dark side, and no human had ever seen an earthrise, as captured by the famous picture, which some credit with propelling the environmental movement. Read more →