The former Bloomington city attorney, who had refused to back down from prosecuting members of Black Lives Matter for their occupation of the Mall of America in December 2014, is now pushing back against some critics of the group’s positions. Read more →
NPR ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen says the radio audience hasn’t been ‘well served’ yet by the partnership between NPR and PBS during coverage of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Read more →
Among the most compelling stories in the tell-all books about presidential campaigns that inevitably follow an election is the behind-the-scenes story of how vice presidential candidates are selected.
This year, we don’t have to wait. The New York Times has the story this afternoon of how Donald Trump settled on Mike Pence of Indiana. Read more →
House Speaker Paul Ryan created a typical day in the life of social media the other day when he posted this ‘selfie’ with interns on Capitol Hill. Read more →
It’s been a long time since the roll call of states at any national political convention has been anything but good theater. Read more →
One person’s noise is another person’s music and that fact has the politicians and police in Northfield a bit stuck on how residents and bar/restaurants can get along. Read more →
Every morning during a national political convention, the state delegations get a pep talk over breakfast.
For the Ohio delegation today, it came from Frank Luntz, the Republican strategist and TV talking head. Read more →
I was hoping for a video of epic Gerald Ford proportions when the BBC reported that Secretary of State John Kerry had walked into the door of 10 Downing Street today. Read more →
On a day of opportunity for head scratching yesterday, few itches were as pronounced at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland as Iowa Rep. Steve King’s ill-advised trip into history. Read more →
A Minnesota delegate shows off her American flag shawl, which breaks any number of guidelines in the U.S. Flag Code Read more →
It’s an admirable effort to provide some solid data to what is usually anecdotal complaining that the network is favoring one candidate or another, and it should provide an opportunity for NPR to self-examine whether it’s falling deeper into the trap of horse race coverage.
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John Glenn is 95 years old today. He was, you may have heard, the first American to orbit the earth, willingly climbing atop a bomb to go try something no American had tried before. Read more →
Virginia Hasek’s obituary says she died rather than vote for either of the mainstream candidates. Read more →
It’s hard to see how the perpetrators of yesterday’s attack in France aren’t gleeful that people like Newt Gingrich are giving them exactly what they had hoped for Read more →
New legislation should fix a longtime problem: pilots who don’t seek treatment for various medical conditions because they fear they’ll lose the medical certification required to fly general aviation aircraft. Read more →
Bob Collins