Bob Collins
It’s possible today’s story about a woman who tried to get a tank of propane on an airplane isn’t as crazy as it first sounds.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for December 2013
The huge backlog of veterans’ disability claims, one of the most shameful scandals of the last decade, is ebbing. Read more →
Many Americans, this week’s news stories confirm, don’t have a clue what the First Amendment says or what it means.
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Moving Saint Paul’s homeless, how public radio and TV cover news differently, a new hand for Harmony, Story Corps: the movie, and the day in Christmas videos. Read more →
The bus stop cookie lady has been shut down. Somebody blew the whistle on her. Read more →
Duck Dynasty “patriarch” Phil Robertson’s racial and social views don’t square with A&E. Read more →
Getting The Yard right, Nienstedt’s defense crumbles, giving birth like a virgin, what it’s like to try to use the MNsure site, and the Yule Log video’s director’s cut. Read more →
The new boss at MNsure acknowledges things have been ‘rocky,’ has there been a credit card security breach at Target, holiday sales haven’t been much to write home about, the Fed reduces support for the economy, and U.S. students are smoking more marijuana, but backing away from binge drinking.
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Your mid-day break from bad news should include the story of Scott Widak. Read more →
The toxic mix of politics and health care, is the Nienstedt controversy for Catholics only, baseball parks in winter, the rights of white supremacists vs. the rights of people to try to shut them up, and why aren’t kids interested in driving? Read more →
The archbishop steps aside, the legislative face of human services retires, the dawn of the intelligent snowplow, the pricetag for stockbrokers killed on 9/11, Gov. Walker hints he’ll sign the school mascots bill in Wisconsin, and the end of Harold Camping’s world. Read more →
Harold Camping has died. He gave us this billboard in NE Minneapolis a few years ago. Camping said he had a mathematical formula for determining the end of days but he never shared it, only the result, which, as you probably have figured out, was wrong. When the world didn’t end in May 2011, he Read more →
As the housing crisis eases, have we learned anything? Read more →
The older we get, the greater our chances of being the grateful rather than the hero.
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More on the scene of a homicide in north Minneapolis in which the blood and remains weren’t cleaned up Read more →