NPR listeners heard an interview this week that pretty well shows the challenge a radio host is faced with when an interview takes a sudden turn.
On Morning Edition on Wednesday, the morning after the New York primary, host David Greene was interviewing Carl Paladino, an honorary co-chairman of Donald Trump’s New York campaign, about the Trump victory the night before. Read more →
On most Election Days, women who pick up their ‘I voted’ sticker, head for a cemetery to remember why they could. Read more →
The announcement reflects a greater love that history has for Alexander Hamilton, who was going to be replaced on the $10 bill until a resurgence of interest in him, spurred by a Broadway show, added pressure on Lew to keep him in his present location. Read more →
In a year in which a large number of Democrats are enchanted with one of the oldest presidential candidates it has ever had, the issue of age and fitness is apparently limited to one race for the Minnesota House of Representatives.
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The lowlight of last Friday’s MinnRoast has already been documented here (and nowhere else, for some odd reason), but sponsoring MinnPost has released the highlight of its fundraisers: A skit featuring the sons of Gov. Mark Dayton — they own the Bachelor Farmer restaurant in St. Paul — trying to help the old-timer break into the restaurant business. Read more →
How could it be that a plane is no longer registered? Easy. Stop at any big or small airport, and there’s a fair chance you’ll find people who don’t know they have to renew their plane’s registration, because up until a few years ago, they didn’t have to.
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It’s not often we see a congressional race in Minnesota get as negative as the one that’s underway in the 2nd District to replace retiring Rep. John Kline. Read more →
Protesters with air horns disrupted last night’s MinnRoast, the fundraiser at the State Theater for the independent news site MinnPost [dislaimer: I am a financial contributor to MinnPost], after Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges used an incident during the 4th Precinct protests as the setting for a joke about her husband. Last November 18, a group Read more →
Beretta, the world’s oldest gun manufacturer, opened its new factory in Tennessee today, making good on its vow to leave a state with tougher gun laws, underscoring that economic development increasingly depends on a state’s politics as well as its taxes. Read more →
Curly Haughland, of Bismarck, N.D., makes a compelling reason why you shouldn’t pay much attention to those lectures about your duty to vote in primary elections: You don’t matter. Read more →
Even Americans who lived through the duck-and-cover years of the Cold War must wonder every now and again whether we really have any clue at all how close the United States is to a shooting war with a super power at any given moment. Read more →
We may never again hear the kind of testimony at a hearing for a Supreme Court nominee that we heard in the October 1991 hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas. Read more →
It seems the general consensus of the Colonies is that the American experiment, at least with regard to the country’s politics, has failed somewhat miserably.
When a member of Parliament took to the floor today to face British Prime Minister David Cameron on the revelations in the release of data from a Panamanian law firm that he was hiding cash offshore, it reminded us that perhaps it’s not to late to rejoin the empire. Read more →
The Boston Globe’s editorial board made its point in an interesting — if somewhat inflammatory way — today. Read more →
You’ve probably seen the occasional person standing on a freeway overpass waving an American flag or carrying a sign and waving at passing motorists. Is that free speech?
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Bob Collins