Bob CollinsEmily Phillips made sure we’ll remember her even though most of us never knew her. She wrote her own obituary. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for April 2015
If a guy wants to wear women’s clothing, how does that impact you to the point where you beat him up? It’s just cloth. Read more →
You don’t often see a bill’s roll call on the front page of the morning paper, but the Fargo Forum went all out today following yesterday’s vote in North Dakota to deny protection to gays. Read more →
In Massachusetts, this billboard got people all stirred up this week.
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It’s always comforting to be reminded that people will drop what they’re doing to help an animal in distress. Read more →
Whether the Indiana ‘religious freedom’ law is an attempt to discriminate against gays has been, obviously, open to debate, but it’s worked out really well for a pizza shop owner who declared that it sure does give her the right to discriminate. Read more →
While we take things on Reddit with a grain of salt, we nonetheless are hoping this story of an angry doctor who objected to having to write a note to a patient’s boss is true. Read more →
There’s only one Howard Johnson’s restaurant left in the country now. And it doesn’t appear to be on solid footing. Read more →
Minnesota spends nearly $100 per capita on state-run gambling in which they have little chance of winning. Read more →
She’s been talked up as a Supreme Court nominee and potential attorney general. Now comes word Klobuchar’s writing her memoir, a requirement these days for a presidential run. Read more →
Can we get a little love today for Donnell Gibson, the kind of man you want living in your city?
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Target says it will close all of its stores in Canada — the chain’s Waterloo — by April 12.
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If you’ve followed the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, you probably know that Nigel Hayes has endeared himself to the nation because of his astonishment that a stenographer was so good at her job, which is transcribing interviews
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A split Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday threw out a man’s first-degree-murder conviction for killing his girlfriend as justices wrangled over the legal definition of domestic abuse. Read more →
I generally don’t pay a lot of attention to Michele Bachmann; she’s low-hanging fruit for bloggers.
But sometimes she reaches a new level. Read more →