Bob Collins
In Springfield, Mass., Bob Charland, 44, is dying. He’s a mechanic with a neurodegenerative brain disease. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
People doing good
When a pickup truck flipped over when tornadoes struck Texas on Saturday, there were plenty of reasons for strangers to think of themselves first.
But they didn’t. Read more →
At least in the short term, Corey Jacob, the homeless Rochester man whose van was smashed on Good Friday when it was hit by a drunk driver, is going to be OK. Read more →
Don’t you just hate it when you take $14,000 in cash to a car dealer, decide you don’t want to buy a car afterall, and when you put the bag of money on your roof while digging for your keys, you forget it’s there and drive off? Read more →
Konrad Reuland, a 29-year-old tight end for the Baltimore Ravens, died in mid-December of the brain aneurysm that struck him down in November. He wasn’t a great NFL star. He was waived seven times in a very brief career which is why, perhaps, his death merited a few paragraphs in the usual places. Read more →
More than two years ago, Marc Welzant disappeared from his residential group home in Brainerd. Months of searching didn’t find the man who had Prader-Willi syndrome that leads to physical, mental and behavioral problems.
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Schanno built a pond on the Baptism River in Finland and stocked it with brook trout and rainbow trout for one reason: so the old-timers at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Silver Bay could go fishing.
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Your daily dose of sweetness comes from Steve Hartman, of course, who found some kids in Florida who were ‘starved for company’ at lunch time. Read more →
Kids, here’s a tip. If your friend is in danger of choking to death, try not to throw up your hands and walk away because it’s grossing you out. Also, learn the Heimlich maneuver. Read more →
Every year around this time, I feel like a slacker.
It happens whenever the Bush Foundation reveals the recipients of its fellowships. Twenty-four were selected this year, according to a press release.
They’ll each get up to $100,000 to pursue their projects and interests.
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These are tough times in the nation’s breadbasket. Commodity prices are down, and when a wildfire swept through sections of Kansas a little over a week ago, it devastated entire farm communities and killed livestock.
So a Minnesota woman is sending hay. Read more →
In the category of ‘you raised ’em right,’ we give you the kids of the Augsburg hockey team.
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The Florida teen, who walked seven miles both ways t work every day, was befriended by a cop who bought him a bike. He’s pedaling on a bigger scale now, the Washington Post reports. Read more →
It’s pretty easy to disregard the oldtimers who scavage alleys and other locations looking for treasure.
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Some people can look away from the killings and attacks on innocent people in Syria. And then there are the Canadians. Read more →