Bob Collins
How an NBA player lost it all, Supreme Court nominees and Minnesota’s obsession with popular culture, flying while standing, life without a high school in Wadena, and why Canby celebrates Ziad Tedeini.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
What makes Jacob Wetterling’s situation newsworthy is that stranger abductions in Minnesota almost never happen. And if it turns out a neighbor was involved in Wetterling’s disappearance, it didn’t happen to him, either.
The horse — Peopleton Brook — went off at 1-to-9 odds, which suggests that perhaps someone bet on the human.
On a day on which it opened the new Wakota Bridge span between Newport and South St. Paul, the Minnesota Department of Transportation selected Lunda/Ames to build the replacement of the Highway 61 bridge in Hastings.
Is access to the Internet a right, the guide to buying new gadgets, what do hydrangeas say about us, why the suburbs can’t dare to be different, and the best job in the Twin Cities is on two wheels.
dgaraets
The caliber of our political discourse
And now, a different kind of confirmation hearing
Eric Ringham
Larry King announces his retirement, and two robbers are caught on camera making rookie robber mistakes; oh, and a giant augmented reality model awes crowds at Times Square by taking their picture.