Bob Collins
Funny thing about kids. They’re always gaining on you. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
While watching Simone Manuel accept her gold medal at the Olympics in Rio last evening, I was thinking about this story from MPR News’ Laura Yuen about the “swimming gap” between white people and people of color. Read more →
School begins in a few weeks in most places, which means there’s a pretty good chance your kids’ teachers are out spending their own money this week on their behalf.
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There aren’t many places in Minnesota where you can score a 30-room, 8,726-square-foot mansion with seven bedrooms and four bathrooms for a little over $150,000. But if you want to live in Crookston, this baby can be yours. Read more →
Since his arrest in early 2014 on the suspicion that he was planning an attack on his Waseca high school, we have not heard from John LaDue, who is now trying to put his life back together.
Until today. Read more →
The Pioneer Press’ Frederick Melo today tells the amazing story of Florence Matadi, the mother of Olympic runner Emmanuel Matadi who is competing for Liberia in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
You won’t see her in the audience, nor mentioned by the announcers at the Games.
She’s mostly lived out of her car in St. Paul.
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Betsy Davis took her own life about a month after a California law took effect that declared that she had a right to. She had ALS, and so she gathered her friends for a two-day party that ended with her under a hillside canopy, saying goodbye to the friends who showed up. Read more →
Paul TostoJust a day or so after Jason Lewis won a crucial GOP primary in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, left-leaning national media are showing a deeper interest in the past comments and writings of the former conservative radio talk show host. Read more →
At a hearing for a man who was likely to go to jail and who hadn’t yet met his one-month-old son, Judge Amber Wolf struck a blow for decency in a business that it’s not often apparent. Read more →
In a few years from now, we’ll fondly recall the days when people who went to baseball games went there to watch baseball. Read more →
Dallas knows a thing or two about presidential assassinations so even if one presidential candidate wasn’t suggesting the assassination of another — and we don’t think he was, for the record — the increasing political mob mentality in today’s politics is stirring memories in the city where President Kennedy was gunned down. Read more →
Sure, they might hack up a hairball on the carpet every now and again, but cats won’t disappoint you the way a human can from time to time.
That might explain why a Rochester woman has spent $20,000 on her cancer-stricken cat. Read more →
Ilhan Omar’s victory over Phyllis Kahn in the DFL primary is the kind of story that seems to resonate with Minnesota voters, just like Mee Moua, another trailblazing woman who has a similar story.
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Today’s Olympics highlight comes from the rugby competition, which was won by Isadora Cerullo after volunteer Marjorie Enya proposed to her. Read more →
You may remember the story of Myles Eckert, the 8-year-old who found $20 and gave it to a soldier eating at a Cracker Barrel because he reminded Myles of his father, who was killed in Iraq five weeks after Myles was born. Here’s an update. Read more →