Bob Collins
The parodies of the Minnesota kid giving an inspirational speech on learning to ride a bike keep coming.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Cash and the Minnesota legislator, would you rather be too hot or too cold, the problem with men, the cure for what ails classical music, and the nature of forgiveness in north Minneapolis.
The flash mobs of Chicago
While I still read the occasional online ‘flame’ from some of my bike-riding friends about some assault on sensibility, I’m not hearing as much bike vs. driver debate as I did just a few years ago.
The wide world of lying, nickel and diming the baseball fan, the view from space is nicer than the view from earth, a tornado report card, and what hell week looks like.
A couple of weeks after the team didn’t tell patrons that a tornado warning had been issued for Minneapolis, the Minnesota Twins announced today the National Weather Service has made Target Field a “StormReady supporter.” But far from a response to not telling patrons of the tornado warning, the Twins’ decision may reflect its value. Read more →
That was a heck of a blast against spelling bees from professor Anatoly Liberman at the University of Minnesota on MPR’s Midmorning today.
The world’s top incomes
Tornadoes expose the way people are forced to live, Moorhead’s extreme home tax bill, pinecones as the new currency, Palin’s history, and the bike kid.
Sen. Linda Scheid, a DFLer from Brooklyn Park, has entered hospice after an extended fight against cancer.