Bob CollinsYou have to give it to the kids in Milaca. They don’t let a little — or a lot — of snow stop them from getting to class. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Weather
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins, who was unimpressive in leading his team to missing the playoffs, had the temerity to like the weather in Florida. Read more →
Like most of our sports stars, Crashed Ice has put the Twin Cities in its rear-view mirror and cuddled up to Boston. Read more →
Removing snow seems like a no-brainer for local politicians’ career paths, but as cities struggle more with removing it, there’s little evidence that the disinterest in making such a mundane task a priority is a threat. Read more →
The kids in Amery, Wis., had a snow day yesterday but there was no time off for them, not when the coaches of their hockey team suggested they put the time to good use. Read more →
Katy Morgan, a TV meteorologist in Nashville, had to break into regular programming on Wednesday to warn residents about two tornadoes. She interrupted The Masked Singer, which apparently is a Fox TV show that provides the sum and substance of some people’s lives. Yesterday 2 people died due to flooding. 2 tornadoes caused damage. Unfortunately, Read more →
No matter how proud we are of facing down the threat of death by nature this week, we are not in the same league as this person waiting for a bus at Lake and Lyndale in Minneapolis Read more →
We don’t even begin to understand how cold weather pants became a ‘thing’, but this year’s polar vortex made frozen pants a thing.
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No more votes, please, the winner for best use of the cold wave goes to Patrick Sieve, who runs the Travelers Inn Restaurant in Alexandria. Read more →
If there’s a little bit of love left in the world, the internet should do that thing it does for Jay Mitchell, whose story on the front-page of the Star Tribune today will bring out the feels, including a fair amount of anger that he faced what he faced. Read more →
This is impressive. A Twitter account has posted this picture of an exploding toilet tank.
We are skeptical. We want to know more. Read more →
Everything’s cool in International Falls. Read more →
A lot of people on social media are pointing out today that it’s colder in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest than it is in Antarctica, to which others point out that it’s winter in the Upper Midwest and summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
Both are missing an important point. Read more →
We hold doors for each other. We let the pedestrians cross against the light and think nothing of it because they’re out there and we’re safe in a car and, what the heck does it matter anyway? We’re nicer
this week and we got that way without terrorists having to ram jetliners into buildings like the last time we were all nice to each other because we were all in it together. Read more →
Oh, Canada, you never disappoint. Read more →