Bob Collins
Sometimes a news story just makes you go ‘huh’.
So it is with the story from Alabama, where a train full of feces from New Jersey and New York has been torturing a town for several months and the town is sick of it. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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Trucks. It’s always the trucks causing the havoc on Minnesota highways after a storm.
The trucks sit out in the blizzards, accumulating an armory of ice and snow and then hit the highways with predictable results, as a Dakota County ranger learned anew. Read more →
In a book of women who fly, Tammie Jo Shults recalled her senior year in high school in 1979 when an airman — a retired colonel — gave a lecture on aviation.
She was the only girl to show up and the colonel asked her if she was lost.
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This is an extraordinary video from today’s emergency landing of a Southwest Airlines jet in Philadelphia. Read more →
Tim NelsonIt turns out the old Dayton’s store might not have held the only mummified monkey in Minneapolis. An old movie house monkey giveaway might have gone awry. Read more →
Paul TostoThe 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 →
A black bear in northern Minnesota couldn’t stop John Liepa. Neither did a hospital stay. Or a tornado. Or a blizzard. Or any number of things that keep the rest of us indoors in the fetal position. Read more →
You’d think that after what Minnesota sports fans learned about anything having to do with Eagles last January, they’d have steered clear of the species and their human offspring at the opening day of Target Field. Read more →
It started Monday morning when the city’s police chief, acting under orders from the mayor, shut down the sale of chicks at Strand Hardware, according to owner Matt Strand’s Facebook post. Read more →
Madden Humphreys was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate. He also has complete heterochromia iridum, which gives him two different colored eyes.
That makes him a target for the most vicious animal on earth: kids at school. Read more →
Vadnais Heights is one of 10 northeast metro communities under a court order to reduce water usage, but it has the highest per capita use, 83 gallons per person. That’s 11 gallons per person more than the second-biggest user of water (Stillwater). Read more →
Lorraine Guenther, 98, of Milwaukee, says she thought she had a deal with Minneapolis-based Thrivent Financial when a couple of insurance agents came to her Lutheran church when she was in her 60s.
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Toxic chemicals, bad social networking, good mutts, fallen debris from space, and opening day. Read more →
Facebook is denying that it has kept track of your text messages and phone calls without your knowledge if you use an Android phone.
Oh, they’ve done that, mind you. But Facebook says it told you. Read more →
Who could possibly have guessed that Mike Hughes’ attempt to prove the earth is flat by launching himself in a steam-powered rocket would end this way? Read more →