Bob Collins
Lost in all the coverage of fires in Arizona, the tornadoes of Missouri and Minnesota and a government shutdown in the state is this item: A good share of Minot, North Dakota is about to be washed away.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for June 2011
Man robs bank to get health care, taking the people’s temperature on the state shutdown, community and the Wisconsin supper club, if art imitated life, and a 360-degree view of the hockey riots.
It’s true. In the middle of June, a point guard from Europe whose statistics aren’t that good got more attention than a local baseball team that may be in the middle of one of the greatest comebacks in the history of baseball.
Here’s the official Walker Art Center time-lapse video of Saturday’s Rock the Garden concert, also sponsored by The Current.
The Chicago Cubs today became the second Major League Baseball team to endorse the “It Gets Better” campaign aimed at lesbian, gay, bi, trans and other bullied teens. The Cubs join the San Francisco Giants on the record.
The most impressive part of Saturday’s ‘glitter attack’ on Michele Bachmann was how synchronized the security detail was.
For the kids, the criminalization of domestic violence, how others see us, revenge of the Sunday pundit, and dog v. dog in Wadena County.
Life after the ‘mancession’
Smaller government and the safety of your food, outsourcing lawyers, the end of the Red River flood, the story behind the kissing couple, it’s athletic savior day, and are Minneapolis’ new parking meters too slow?
I’m just going to go ahead and assume these are Boston Bruins fans in the midst of the carnage in Vancouver last night.
City Pages reports that the Minnesota Twins have given a good talking to to a security guard who scolded a lesbian couple for a brief kiss before one headed off to the bathroom.