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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

By Paul Tosto

Paul Tosto
ptosto@mpr.org

Paul Tosto is an editor for MPR News.

Economy

How did ‘OK to be white’ cards end up in diapers at Target?

Paul TostoPaul Tosto April 10, 2018, 1:56 PM Apr 10, 2018
29

The Anti-Defamation League says it from Target customers who bought diapers at the store only to open them and find the slogan linked to white supremacist groups written on a laminated index card.
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This or That

Old picture of a sheep gets the internet bahhing

Paul TostoPaul Tosto April 9, 2018, 5:51 PM Apr 9, 2018
12

The Museum of English Rural Life had a little fun on Twitter Monday, and followers rewarded the museum with a collective hug for some comic relief in a social media season where fun is really hard to find. Read more →

Sports

‘Billet parents’ feel a special pain in deaths of junior hockey kids

Paul TostoPaul Tosto April 9, 2018, 2:48 PM Apr 9, 2018
2

Billet families are the bright lights in what can be an unforgiving existence in western Canada’s junior hockey leagues. Their pain is surfacing now in the the days since a semitrailer ripped into a Canadian junior hockey league team bus, killing 15 people. Read more →

Sports

Byron shows up for girls hoops, and it matters

Paul TostoPaul Tosto March 14, 2018, 2:30 PM Mar 14, 2018
2

Check your sports cynicism at the door, people. The girl’s basketball tournament is underway.  Read more →

This or That

I’m Leif from Minnesota, and I want to be on ‘The Bachelorette’

Paul TostoPaul Tosto March 9, 2018, 5:00 PM Mar 9, 2018
5

NZK Productions has a permit to shoot Saturday on the state Capitol grounds. NZK is perhaps best known as the firm behind the ABC TV spectacle, “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” which already has an intriguing Minnesota connection. Read more →

Politics

Supreme Court slow roasts Minnesota lawyer in T-shirt, voting fight

Paul TostoPaul Tosto February 28, 2018, 3:11 PM Feb 28, 2018
13

I’m not a great Supreme Court watcher, but when you see ‘(laughter)’ in the transcript during your arguments, it probably is not a good thing. Read more →

The jobs we do

Video: Eagan cops offer 360-degree glimpse of a first responder’s life

Paul TostoPaul Tosto February 28, 2018, 11:54 AM Feb 28, 2018
6

Watch the video and, after your heart stops racing, you’ll have a little better appreciation of the people who run toward danger while you’re running away. Read more →

100,000 Sting fans can’t be wrong; library dog an internet superstar

Paul TostoPaul Tosto February 14, 2018, 1:01 PM Feb 14, 2018
5

When the call went out for folks to read to a lonely Sting, the nation responded. We’re talking about the White Bear Lake library dog. Read more →

Crime and Justice

MN Supreme Court: OK to demand suspect’s fingerprint to unlock phone

Paul TostoPaul Tosto January 17, 2018, 11:45 AM Jan 17, 2018
25

Providing a fingerprint to unlock a criminal suspect’s phone “elicited only physical evidence … and did not reveal the contents of his mind,” the Minnesota Supreme Court said Wednesday. Read more →

Sports

Protests during anthem now have hockey, Minnesota angles

Paul TostoPaul Tosto October 9, 2017, 3:56 PM Oct 9, 2017
13

J.T. Brown said he saw a raised fist as a middle ground gesture for those who believed that kneeling for the national anthem, as some NFL players have done, disrespected the flag. His consideration of the matter didn’t spare him from the angry, racist backlash. Read more →

Nation’s fattest cats and dogs? It’s not Wisconsin, it’s … us

Paul TostoPaul Tosto June 27, 2017, 3:41 PM Jun 27, 2017
11

When I saw there were state rankings of pet obesity, I was ready to go all Indignant Minnesotan. Surely, we had the fittest pets, or at least fitter than Wisconsin. But facts are stubborn things. Read more →

I-94 by Lowry Tunnel is going to stink this summer

Paul TostoPaul Tosto June 21, 2017, 6:00 AM Jun 21, 2017
24

I can’t get my head around the mess that will be Interstate 94 in Minneapolis this summer. Read more →

Cheese curd pioneers give up fight, won’t return to State Fair

Paul TostoPaul Tosto June 20, 2017, 10:36 AM Jun 20, 2017
49

Dick and Donna Mueller, who started the cheese curd craze at the fair decades ago, had hoped to retire and hand the booth over to younger members of the family. The State Fair board said no. After two months of wrangling, the family said Tuesday they’re calling it quits. Read more →

With ESPN documentary, Shattuck scandal returns to view

Paul TostoPaul Tosto April 10, 2017, 4:52 PM Apr 10, 2017
5

The ESPN broadcast features a surprising revelation: Seibel is out of jail and living only a few miles from the school. Read more →

Wisconsin’s Irish butter crisis is over

Paul TostoPaul Tosto April 7, 2017, 12:30 PM Apr 7, 2017
6

A Wisconsin creamery has found a butter loophole in the law that will allow the creamy goodness to be sold in the Dairy State. Read more →

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