Bob Collins
The latest fence jumper may put the White House farther out of Americans’ daily view. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Politics
One of these days we’re going to have to calculate the impact — if any — a hockey ad makes in Minnesota. Is it, for example, as big a boost as a Scandanavian name?
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Over the years, Minneapolis Rep. Phyllis Kahn has elicited a few guffaws with her occasional bill to lower the voting age in Minnesota to 16. Maybe it’s time for Scotland to be our guide. Read more →
Michele Bachmann, the congresswoman from Minnesota’s 6th District, was due to preside over the House yesterday afternoon when someone sprang into action upon seeing her upper arms. Read more →
Brainerd won’t be joining Red Wing and Minneapolis in putting Columbus out to pasture. Read more →
This is the time of year — every four years or so — when otherwise ethical journalists become willing participants in a presidential campaign’s strategy.
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The Independence Party and every other third party can’t escape the reality that people think they’re wasting their vote. Read more →
It’s hard not to envy North Dakota, where students loans and the state’s obligation to educate its own are an issue. In the race for agriculture commissioner. Read more →
The intersection of politics and religion went badly for presidential hopeful Ted Cruz. Read more →
The environment: It’s not just a liberal issue.
That’s the takeaway from this morning’s interview on Midwest Energy News with Debbie Dooley of Georgia, one of the founders of the tea party movement. Read more →
The exchange was evocative of the Gore Vidal-William F. Buckley debates during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, one of the first times when commentators called each other names, although it seemed classier back then.
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Minneapolis is after a kid’s tree house. Read more →
You probably only get one chance in a lifetime — if that — to meet the leader of the free world.
Don’t blow it. Read more →
That it’s news when a couple of prominent politicians play nice says a lot about the state of politics. Read more →
If we ever needed a reminder about the value of a newspaper, we need only look at the reporting in the last few week of Brandon Stahl of the Star Tribune, who uncovered a combination of apparent incompetence and faulty legislation in the state’s child abuse reporting system that left Eric Dean, 4, dead. Read more →