Bob Collins
Coverage of a giant protest rally in Tehran today.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The U.S. Senate today passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and racial segregation.
The story of a dead airline pilot isn’t the big deal — safetywise — that people are making it out to be.
The joy of watching Midwest weather, killing house flies, another day in Iran, who would use solipsistic in a sentence, and can you cure Alzheimer’s by drilling a hole in your head.
Some images are getting out of Tehran, despite the ban on foreign journalists being allowed to cover demonstrations.
On MPR’s Midday this afternoon, Rep. Loren Solberg predicted massive property tax increases because of Gov. Pawlenty’s “unallotment.” At the same time, the League of Minnesota Cities has just posted a Department of Revenue spreadsheet showing the impact on each city in the state. Find it here. The League makes clear that pushing many of Read more →
Crowd-sourcing: Photoshopping Iran
Tweeting Iran, monitoring your e-mail, when you get a wrong number, Pawlenty’s unallotments, and the worst ideas ever.
Iranian protesters using new media to fight backGov. Tim Pawlenty is fond of comparing Minnesota’s social service programs with neighboring states — usually Wisconsin — to show that the state is overly generous. Today, he is expected to announce further cuts in health care coverage for the poor. Ironically, it comes at the same time Wisconsin is expanding its state subsidized health Read more →
I generally find discussions about health care to be endless and unenlightening. So why am I live-blogging today’s Midmorning discussion about the future of a single-payer health plan proposals?