Bob Collins
When Harrison Rund was stopped by a Minnesota state trooper in 2014 who searched his trunk and found marijuana, he made a big mistake.
He went home, started drinking, and then went on Twitter. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for June 2017
It would appear that in at least one Georgia community, the Constitution isn’t highly regarded, so some of the students at a high school are going to provide a lesson plan.
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Ryan Strnad isn’t limiting his campaign to the Milwaukee stadium; he thinks sports fans everywhere should pay a little more attention to the working stiffs in the stands. Read more →
Cloquet Police Chief Steve Stracek must have done something wrong or he’d probably still have a job. What did he do? Nobody will ever know because state law shields the City Council from revealing the rift between the police chief and his officers.
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If you happen to be having a lot of indifferent feelings right now about people’s disconnection from each other, follow Officer Tommy Norman. Read more →
Packers cornerback Davon House landed at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport and his connecting flight to Green Bay was canceled. He put a call out to local Packer fans. Read more →
It’s not that I don’t honor the unimaginable courage — and acknowledge the unimaginable fear — of those who stormed the beaches, it’s just the feeling that it’s far easier for the nation to recognize the events of World War II than it is to acknowledge Vietnam. Read more →
The Ogden (Utah) Raptors have apparently had second thoughts about its ‘Hourglass Appreciation Night’, a promotion that offended everyone but the knucklehead who conceived it. Read more →
The Duluth News Tribune reports that someone posted a Snapchat message encouraging people to violate the school’s dress code. The crackdown targeted mostly girls whose shorts or dresses didn’t reach mid-thigh or whose bra straps were exposed. Read more →
Mili Hernandez is 8 years old, loves soccer, has short hair and looks like a boy, so she and her team were kicked out of a girls soccer tournament in Nebraska on Sunday.
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Can the media exercise restraint when keeping in mind that whatever is embarrassing to the Wetterlings, it had nothing to do with why their son is dead? Read more →
Christine Archibald died in her fiance’s arms in last week’s attack on London Bridge and because of that, some niceness is spreading.
The 30-year-old social worker moved from Calgary to Europe to be with her fiance.
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In La Crosse on Saturday, Abbey Zastrow finished last in the 400-meter dash and the 200-meter dash at the WIAA Division 2 girls state track and field meet at UW-La Crosse. She blew a hamstring with 50 meters to go in the 400 and had to walk to the finish line. Read more →
The United States secretary of defense said all the usual things after the latest terrorism in London, tough talk to show the world that we’re tough against the onslaught of occasional evil. Read more →
Republicans are pretty good at winning elections, so the strategy they reportedly have settled on for the 2018 congressional elections requires this assumption: You hate reporters more than politicians. Read more →