Bob Collins
Here’s your daily dose of sweetness and heartbreak.
It’s Chris Picco of Loma Linda, Calif., playing music for his dying son.
Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Arts & Culture
The big news in science today is that a guy smart enough to help land a spaceship on a comet was dumb enough to wear this shirt to talk about it.
Read more →
Today’s must-read comes from the Washington Post where a woman who says she was raped — twice — by Bill Cosby asks important questions that she’s had for 30 years: Why didn’t anyone believe her?
Read more →
There are 58,286 names on a granite wall in Washington. They’re not there to honor the policies that put them there. They’re there to honor the people who were swept up and sent to Vietnam.
By now, we should have been able to understand the distinction. Read more →
Garth Brooks, who’s in the middle of a bigger winning streak than anyone else who’s ever played at Target Center, got a chance to meet the woman for whom he stopped his Minneapolis concert last week.
Read more →
It’s a fine line that businesses walk today when offering deals to veterans. Read more →
Processing the death of radio icon Tom Magliozzi was easy for most of us. We got to remember the Car Talk laugh machine the way he was.
That’s not the case for his family, his son’s eulogy revealed.
Read more →
The Washington Post is courageously tackling a word that it can’t even use in its article today — the ‘N word.’ The paper today rolled out a huge series examining the use of the word.
Read more →
Here’s your daily dose of sweetness.
It happened at last night’s Garth Brooks concert at Target Center when a woman waved a sign that indicated she’d had chemotherapy yesterday morning. Read more →
Death is pretty serious business, but there are worse ways to depart this world than to have the people left recalling the times you made them laugh until things came out of your nose.
Read more →
AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has been arrested in New Zealand and charged with attempting to hire a hit man.
The Washington Post gets right to the main issue: What does this mean for the band? Read more →
If you’re a public radio fan, you probably already know about Serial, the podcast from the creators of This American Life.
The series explores the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior in Baltimore. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, is serving time for her murder.
If reported traditionally, it’s just another murder with just another person serving time who says he didn’t do it. Read more →
Tom Magliozzi’s laugh gave public radio permission to laugh and not be constantly weighed down by thinking such deep thoughts all the time. Read more →
Did anyone outside of the Upper Midwest notice the big demonstration yesterday against the Washington Redskins’ name? Yes. Read more →
A Minneapolis ad agency has rolled out a commercial to build support for banning use of the word ‘Redskins’ from the regulated over-the-air broadcasts. Read more →