Bob CollinsOn a day in which the fundamental underpinnings of faith could be challenged, religious leaders and writers have mostly left it to the politicians.
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Solution by technicality
Good people have come and good people have gone but there’s one person — and only one person — who’s been a part of MPR.org since the day he started.
There isn’t a good parent in the world who doesn’t understand the pain of Tom Sullivan, center, who is shown in this AP photo embraces family members outside Gateway High School in Aurora.
Did life imitate art, Franken and Davis minus Davis, reporters in campaign ads, remembering the Hjemkomst voyage, and the Airstream mentality.
Anyone who’s ever watched politicians get questions they didn’t have answers for had to know that Gov. Mark Dayton was heading for the rocks almost immediately after he got a question on MPR’s Daily Circuit the other day about a subject that has little to do with politics or policy.
An iceberg the size of Minneapolis?
Does having it all require money, the Olympic mom, the sons of the Kent State generation at Penn State, when the water recedes in Duluth, and another look at the Boy Scout decision.
You may have seen the story that the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled against the families of people killed when their Cirrus plane crashed. I won’t jump into the analysis of the incident in question, because I already had when the Appeals Court ruled in the case. You can find it here. There’s discussion in the Read more →
The SpaceX people have just released this video of last May’s launch of their privately-built spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station.
John McCain vs. the people who fear Muslims
Rob Portman, the Ohio senator, is going off at 7-to-4 odds, but former Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty is drawing in the railbirds, too. Betting on either one will not pay for medical school.