Bob Collins
Editorial cartoonists usually get pretty wide latitude.
This was too wide. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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Newspapers could cure their readership problem if they’d just put the police log on the front page. Read more →
Poor Jeffrey Wong. He had the misfortune of being photographed by the Associated Press for a story last year about how Hawaii is preparing for the missle threat from North Korea.
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A New Hampshire woman who won a half-billion dollars in the Powerball game wants to remain anonymous. The lottery says she can’t. Read more →
A check of out-of-town reports about Minnesota reveals that we spend most of the time in the water or frozen to it. Read more →
Canada, which has the world’s best national anthem, is tweaking the thing to get with the times.
See if you can determine the problematic line. No peeking. Read more →
Life is a crapshoot. An unfair crapshoot. It’s the only way to explain two stories in the news. Read more →
The plane that led the D-Day invasion has returned to the sky in Wisconsin after being rescued by aviation historians. Read more →
The arrival of the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles at MSP this week wasn’t exactly the Beatles of 1964. Or the Minnesota Lynx 2011. Read more →
It’s a deer with the severed head of another deer. Apparently they got tangled up and somehow it got resolved. One would drag around the head of the other. Read more →
Super Bowl, Shmooper Bowl. Let’s face it: We just want to hear the national media tell us about ourselves. How do you like us? Are we nice or what? Aren’t we something about the way we live in this cold place and don’t get fazed by eight inches of snow and our kids being stuck on school buses until midnight? Read more →
We say again: Nobody does winter like the people of St. Paul. St. Paul doesn’t pretend to embrace winter. It actually does, which is why Janna Armsteade and Brad Tegantvort are getting hitched.
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All Carrol Amrich wanted to do a week ago Tuesday was get to Minnesota from Pueblo, Colorado to say “goodbye” to her dying mother.
She didn’t make it thanks to the byzantine system of air travel . Read more →
Sure, the big weighty issues might be a reason for revolution. But sometimes it starts with chocolate spread. Read more →
Terry Wayne, of DeMotte, Ind., died on Tuesday. He is survived by an obituary that makes us wish we’d known him. Terry Wayne Ward, age 71, of DeMotte, IN, escaped this mortal realm on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018, leaving behind 32 jars of Miracle Whip, 17 boxes of Hamburger Helper and multitudes of other random Read more →