Bob CollinsJen Erickson, a University of Oregon anthropology doctoral student, didn’t need to return to Bosnia to find the perfect place to study the culture. She only had to go to Fargo.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for July 2010
Every morning, it seems, we’re greeted with another shooting, another fatality in a car crash, an ATV accident somewhere, another life lost. Little effort goes into finding the humanity behind any of the stories but Austin Daily Herald reporter Mike Rose provided a good example today of why we in the business should try harder.
When the Star Tribune referred to a race between two women as “red hot,” what did it mean?
Your homesick stories, it’s fun again in Canby, big dreams in Lake Vermilion, anti-Obama posters in the workplace, and a tale of two dogs.
Nationwide, the difference in percentage increase of people working for temp (temporary) services vs. those who are holding permanent jobs has never been bigger.
Bemidji takes a stand
What the brouhaha over Tom Emmer and the minimum wage left out, an Olmsted County lawyer goes to Iraq so a friend doesn’t have to, baseball players are people too, should the gas tax be diverted for things other than roads and bridges, and the thin line between right and wrong.
Conservative comedy
Are big-money waiters and waitresses victimizing restaurant owners? Are we a region just barely hanging on? Or are we the next success story? How air conditioning built the Republican Party. Why people aren’t contributing to Gulf relief. And the real cost of buying a ticket to a baseball game.
From whom did we declare independence; worked up over a hot dog eating contest; no arms, no legs, no whining; dissent in time of war; and what’s better than the BWCA.