Bob CollinsFor 20 years, Shane Snowdon didn’t say much about what happened in 1997.
Snowdon, a Cambridge, Mass., resident, has broken the silence now after reading a headline. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for March 2017
Chris Newsome, of Jacksonville, Alabama, didn’t think much of the toad on his porch one evening. But when it returned the next night, he figured it could use a little dressing up. Newsome likes hats, so he made a hat for the toad.
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Apparently, locking your doors at night isn’t a big thing in Alexandria, Minn. But after the Alexandria Echo Press story about a man who drove his car off an embankment, flew over 210 feet of open water, and came to rest on the ice of Lake L’Homme Dieu, it might not be a bad idea. Read more →
Iowa Republican U.S. House Rep. Steve King isn’t a newcomer to racist and bigoted comments. Yet won his last election with 64 percent of the vote.
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A recipe from a Pi Day curmudgeon
Like most other students at Moose Lake, a school with only 184 students, Daniel Lilya plays a variety of sports. Unlike those other students, however, Lilya was born with a broken back, is a paraplegic, and has been confined to a wheelchair his entire life. Read more →
Thoughts and prayers this afternoon go out to the social media manager of Vice, who bit the bullet and posted this tweet today to promote an article. Read more →
Author Amy Krouse Rosenthal has died, a little more than a week after she tried to find a new spouse for her husband. Read more →
The lawsuit asserted that children of color have not received a quality education and that ‘[s]chool children in public schools throughout the State of Minnesota, including the City of Minneapolis, the City of Saint Paul, and their adjacent suburban communities, are largely segregated by race and socioeconomic status.’ Read more →
This is the time of the year when Arizona is one of the smartest states in the nation. Arizona doesn’t spring forward or fall back. It leaves its clocks alone. Read more →
Although they get credit in captions, photojournalists work in comparative obscurity. Read more →
The food shelf in Hibbing is closing for good this month. It’s run out of volunteers.
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I had vowed this year that I would not succumb to the allure of the Minnesota State High School Tournament hockey-hair team that John King puts together every year.
Like the Macarena, as soon as the media became obsessed with the thing, it was past time to move on.
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Surdyk’s decision to flaunt the law isn’t much different from preachers who endorse political candidates from the pulpit, daring the federal government to do something about (it usually doesn’t).
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How does a pair of cut-off jeans festooned with pins from the Minnesota state hockey tournament end up on a rack in Japan? Read more →