Bob Collins
A lot of local airports get FAA funding — which also makes it harder for communities to close their airports — but Silver Bay didn’t have enough pilots and planes left to earn the money.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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Timing is everything in the world, so news that volunteers have proven humans are smarter than giant bogs comes with a measure of restrained celebration. Read more →
Some kids can survive the roadblocks that we put in their way; some kids can’t.
This is a difficult video to watch but the invitation is clearly there for us to consider this question: Why are we putting the roadblocks in their way?
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I’ve heard your calls for some “Friday” news that doesn’t leave you hopeless.
I’m here for you. Read more →
‘You can’t believe the dysfunction of the family,’ said Jay Dehmalo, who lives near Cleveland now. Read more →
Take Wendy Dodek’s problem with Fidelity Investments, which rejected her $6,500 check (buggywhip #1) for her Roth IRA even though it was mailed (buggywhip #2) before the April 17th deadline.
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The coming days will be a test of whether Douglas Parkhurst, 68, of West Newfield, Maine, will be granted redemption by public opinion. Can a person be both a hero and a reviled figure from the past?
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The best submission will get four tickets to the July 30th game (7:10 pm) at Target Field between the Twins and the Cleveland Indians. Read more →
Lindsay Gottlieb, a basketball coach at Cal, said Southwest Airlines didn’t think it was good enough when she showed her son’s passport to the gate agent, she said in a series of tweets. Her son is biracial. Read more →
Plan B — or C, or E, or J; we’ve lost track — is to treat it like a Minnesota dessert; slice it up until there’s just a microscopic piece left. Then just leave it for someone else to take. Read more →
NPR’s Morning Edition made a brief reference this morning to the obituary of storm chaser Jim Sellars, who died in Missouri at age 64 this week. But it did not mention much more than his plan to have his remains rocketed into space. Let’s rectify that: I was born March 3rd 1954 to John and Read more →
Consumer Reports isn’t exactly the embodiment of the liberal media, but Elon Musk, the brain behind Tesla, is adopting the Donald Trump method of responding to journalists doing their job. Read more →
We will not succumb to the temptation for cheap Wisconsin jokes with the video of what happened in Milwaukee the other day. Read more →
If they told people how heartbreaking parenthood is from time to time, nobody would ever have kids. You go into it with no experience, you suffer with an 18-year case of imposter syndrome, and on the first day after your kid asks you to drop him off a block away from school because of his embarrassment, some punk couple, expecting their first child in a couple of months, offers you an opinion on how you could’ve been a better parent. Read more →
The reaction a Brooklyn Park church is getting for spreading some interdenominational love is jaw-dropping, even when viewed by 2018 standards. Read more →