Bob CollinsThe U.S. Postal Service will issue a new stamp celebrating bicycling next week, and it’s chosen Minneapolis in which to issue the ‘first day cover,’ because it is America’s #1 biking city.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The recall election, the picture that still won’t let us turn away, the great bubble wrap debate, the stationary kayak, and the time machine in the back of a truck.
Today’s successful splashdown of the Space X Dragon (its mission to resupply the International Space Station complete) is more than the beginning of the transfer of a space program from government to private business, it’s the transfer from one generation to the next.
Two stories in the news bracket the spectrum of gay rights in America and the risks people take when taking a stand.
The challenges of early dementia explored, public defending is not a ‘thankless’ job, start using common sense, the connection between an Irish rower and the Ojibwe, and disappointment in the trip of a lifetime.
Dean Barkley, who was a U.S. senator because Gov. Jesse Ventura appointed him after the death of Paul Wellstone, has announced plans to run for the Minnesota Supreme Court.
The tobacco industry has had a tough time winning court cases in Minnesota in recent years. It won one today, however, when the Minnesota Supreme Court killed an 11-year-old lawsuit against Philip Morris that claimed the company fraudulently marketed Marlboro Lights as a safer cigarette. The Minnesota Court of Appeals had resurrected the case in Read more →
Local music and local heresy, the lure of the Oil Patch, Marina Keegan’s last essay, wishing away Jim Crow, and what happens to all the VHS tapes?
Bob Dylan will probably get most of the coverage today when he receives the Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. After all, he’s one of us. But so is John Doar.