Bob Collins
The story out of Florida today is a horrific one. A man was in his bad around 11 p.m., when the earth opens up and swallows him. Jeffrey Bush, 37, is presumed dead below his home near Tampa.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
You don’t usually hear about the kids in the school band getting into trouble. They tend not to jump on tables at lunch doing the Harlem Shake, or suspended from band for making sex tapes, and they’re not usually the schoolyard bullies. Band — music programs — must be doing something right, or the programs just seem to attract a decent brand of child.
Nate Minor
Bruce Kramer on expressing love, get yourself to a fish fry tonight, how one interprets duty to one’s country, St. Jose Canseco and, of course, the sequester.
Woodward and one of another president’s men
Eric Ringham
North Dakota’s secret to low teen pregnancy rates: oil
The same-sex marriage debate will begin anew in Minnesota tomorrow when sponsors of a bill to legalize same sex marriage unveil their initiative.
By way of the Star Tribune today, we learned of the death earlier this month of David Leslie, 84, a Twin Cities stockbroker who was probably better known for his love and knowledge of birds.
Don’t mess with the hockey team, the frac sand debate: Take the money? And: Nick Anderson’s reward, the homeless man and the engagement ring, and the winter bike ride.
Here’s a picture that’s picking up steam around the Internet today. A picture of five aircraft carriers in port in Norfolk, Virginia. The chances are pretty good it’s going to show up in your Facebook feed soon.
There are no molecules in space, being a vacuum and all, so sound can’t travel. Now scientists have created a satellite out of a smartphone to see if that’s really true.
Giving up baby