Bob CollinsThe people of Ely have just about had it with the out-of-town maple syrup gangs. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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Take it from someone who knows. Some people don’t test well.
So we’re reluctant to make fun of the 17-year-old Monticello girl who accidentally put the car in drive instead of reverse during her driving test yesterday, according to the Buffalo, Minn., police department. Read more →
Solway, Minn., just west of Bemidji, has a population of 95 people and two apparent angels, judging by the story today in the Bemidji Pioneer about Kent and Shantel Dudley, who have adopted children no one else would. Read more →
A woman in Milwaukee has hit for nearly $500,000 in the 65 times she’s bought more than $600 worth of lottery tickets. A man in Cuddahy has won 33 times for almost $80,000. Eleven people who have cashed 20 or more winning tickets of at least $600. Several of them are connected to the stores that sold the tickets, according to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. Read more →
The sign at the most-used entrance to Boston’s State House wouldn’t have caused generations of snickers had it simply honored Gen. Joseph Hooker by including his first name.
Instead, the cradle of liberty got this.
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A Wall Street Journal report shows Best Buy and other retail chains are alienating legitimate customers as they chase down the fraction of store returns that are considered fraudulent.
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If there’s one thing that radio listeners — and some radio employees, too, I’ve noticed — don’t like, it’s the advancing technology that allows us access to information on demand, even if it provides an opportunity to stem the decline of radio as a relevant medium.
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Motorola has spent a lot of money trying to get you addicted to your smartphone. It’s worked splendidly; people are spending most of their days looking at their phone.
So color us skeptical about a new series of ads from the tech giant lamenting that what they wanted to happen happened. Read more →
After its owner was stabbed, a dog stood vigil outside a hospital for four months, not knowing its owner was dead. Read more →
Rollingstone, Minn., is dying. When its only bar burned down two years ago, the community lost its meeting place. Now, it’s school is closing . Read more →
Paul TostoNZK Productions has a permit to shoot Saturday on the state Capitol grounds. NZK is perhaps best known as the firm behind the ABC TV spectacle, “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” which already has an intriguing Minnesota connection. Read more →
It’s International Women’s Day and social media is paying appropriate tribute to the women whom history has forgotten. Meanwhile, NPR documents the life of a woman who’s being forgotten while she’s struggling to stay alive. Read more →
The result could still keep you up at night. Read more →
Every now and again, a day comes along with a letter to the editor that you know is going to set the world ablaze.
Today is that day.
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The world’s oldest message-in-a-bottle has been found in Australia and there are two fascinating elements to the story. One is that the world’s oldest message in a bottle has been found in Australia. The other is the work that was required to determine that the world’s oldest message in a bottle has been found in Australia. Read more →