Bob Collins
The value of the Internet, why drilling makes no difference on gas prices, the tax that quacks like a duck, Pomeranz exits, and why do four words from 50 years ago carry such meaning today?
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
As usual in the immediate aftermath of a plane crash, some of the initial facts and witness accounts don’t quite add up. That’s the case for the plane crash in Glencoe today that claimed three lives.
And that’s really the thinnest of threads NewsCut needs to bring back an old favorite — the time Joshua Bell played as a street musician in the Washington Metro.
Minnesota has a lot going for it, but it’s a barber shop backwater, at least when it comes to barber shops on wheels.
The hero of the movement to expand self defense didn’t need the law to protect him from prosecution. It had a grand jury to do that.
Carless in Duluth
Defining the line of holding kids responsible, the ‘ice out’ debate in Minnesota, the hidden Vietnam, pipe down for the pine trees, and that’s not Olive Garden; that’s an octopus!
The race for the White House has now officially entered the fit-stump-speeches-into-an-Eminem-song stage.
We never were able to make much progress in uncovering the brains behind the Postcard Underground after Gary Eichten’s retirement in January, when anonymous (except for first name) postcards started showing up every day.
The Florida shooting examined, the picture of poverty, Duluth in a fog, the hockey team that must not be mentioned, and the lost art of locking the car.