Bob Collins
The University of Detroit Jesuit High School is providing homeless veterans something that the rest of the nation has refused to provide: a little respect. Unfortunately, they have to die to get it. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for November 2015
Gary Knell, the former boss of NPR who abruptly quit in 2013 because of an offer he couldn’t refuse from National Geographic, might have set a new standard for clumsy layoff announcements.
National Geographic is in the process of gutting its staff now that it’s in the clutches of one Rupert Murdoch.
The layoffs are underway today. Read more →
This won’t be the end of the discussion about what makes millennials different, but perhaps it should. A CNBC poll finds that, at least when it comes to work, millennials aren’t much different, and there they are different, it’s all to the good. Read more →
Because what’s the point of having kids if you can’t make them miserable every now and again.
Read more →
The new Pew Research survey on religion in American life — the first since 2007– suggests the United States is becoming less religious.
That’s the headline anyway although it may overstate the shift from belief in god.
Read more →
Can you really call yourself a hunter if you have to sprawl in your deer-stand McMansion waiting for a buck to stroll by? Read more →
Here’s the video shown before tonight’s Minnesota Timberwolves game honoring long-time coach Flip Saunders, who died last week of complications from cancer treatment.
Read more →
On Saturday, Lauren Turner and Indianapolis’ Brebeuf Prep girls soccer team played for a state title.
And Lauren Turner’s mom got to watch her daughter, the goalie.
Stephanie Turner was given just days to live two weeks ago. Read more →
Last night’s 60 Minutes report on heroin was certainly an eye-opener in an area of the country that often feels it’s insulated from many ills: the suburbs. Read more →
Mary Lucia is coming back to The Current after more than six months of trying to put a stalker where he belonged. Read more →
Here’s the immediate payoff to turning back the clocks: We get to see the iconic Pillsbury sign in Minneapolis an hour earlier.
Read more →
Gov. Mark Dayton is promising to remake the face of Minnesota state government, saying it’s too white. Read more →
Is there any other sport besides running marathons where winning isn’t a goal?
We have a special place in our NewsCut heart for people who run 26 miles with nothing but the intention to have a blast along the way. Read more →
An East Grand Forks teacher who was suspended for criticizing Somalis who don’t show up for their English-as-a-second-language (ESL) classes says he wrote his letter to administrators to ‘brainstorm’ ways to teach the class. Read more →
It’s a silly notion, however, that a pilot would be able to read a registration number on a drone; I was too busy to try to read the “N-number” on the little Cessna filling my windshield, and those letters are as high as a drone is wide.
Read more →