Bob CollinsDuring these cold snaps, we in the media struggle for new ways to tell you how cold it is, as if you don’t already know. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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Already this morning, my Twitter feed is full of people worried that school be closed tomorrow, and that school won’t be closed tomorrow.
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January has a habit of showing up around this time of year, and so does this post. Read more →
With any luck, anyone thinking about driving on lake ice when authorities are warning them about thin spots will have a second thought after they hear Lyle Grohman’s story about what happened when his truck fell through the ice in southern Minnesota. Read more →
Peter Cox’s excellent story on the perfect ice conditions on area lakes has a life lesson to it: you can’t always get what you want. And one’s man’s trash… and all that. Read more →
No, we don’t know who this is skating on Lake Minnetonka and casting fate to the wind.
But we like your spunk, kid. Read more →
There’s so much packed into this video released this afternoon by the Minnesota State Patrol that we hardly know where to start. Read more →
There was a little more freezing fog around the upper Midwest overnight, which provided another chance to consider the advantage of living in flyover country. Light pillars, for example. Read more →
First of all, the whole call-the-cops-on-your-neighbor-rather-than-talking-to-them thing is creepy. And oh so Minnesotan. Read more →
And we’re off! Welcome to another season of people driving on thin ice and falling through.
Alexandria/Douglas County has raced off to the early lead with two incidents over the weekend. Read more →
Aaron Parmlet, a sheriff’s deputy in Butte County, Calif. thought he was done for. The flames from the northern California wildfire were on all sides of him when his police car broke down. And he still hadn’t found nurses he was sent to rescue. Read more →
It’s cold as all get-out, there’s snow on the ground in Minnesota, it’s only November 12th and nobody is acting like this about it.
Maybe that’s on us. Read more →
‘I thought you guys were supposed to be good at this winter stuff,’ an out-of-towner said to me late Thursday night when I dropped him off at a hotel on the Bloomington strip. It had taken us about 45 minutes to drive from Fairview Hospital, taking the deserted river roads instead of returning to the disaster on the interstate I’d been seeing all evening. Read more →
We should be better. There are people who need help. Read more →