Bob CollinsThe kids are all grown at Casa NewsCut and they’re not around today, so I’m sitting here reminiscing about Christmas mornings past and, for the record, not feeling guilty at all about the big lie.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for December 2014
This is the time of the year when a few long-held beliefs of childhood get exposed (wink wink) and now today comes another: the pilot of your delayed flight really can’t make up time in the air to offset the delay on the ground. Read more →
In the category of ‘Some Things Never Get Old,’ we nominate ‘people who tie balloons to a chair (or house) and go for a ride.’ Read more →
St. Cloud’s only airline is flying half-full airplanes while cashing subsidy checks. But it’s still losing money and the end — if history is any guide — is near. Read more →
There was another police shooting last night that left a young man dead. But this time there’s video. Read more →
And now this message from a spot where borders aren’t obvious. Read more →
We almost made it all the way through Christmas without a controversy over a Christmas display. Read more →
You may recall the story in this space a week or so ago about the widow who dropped her wedding and engagement rings in a Salvation Army red kettle in Massachusetts, and the woman who bought them for $21,000 with the goal of returning them to the original owner.
The only thing that needed to happen is locating the woman.
That has now been done and the rings have been returned. Read more →
You want a Christmas miracle? Here’s a Christmas miracle. Read more →
In today’s performance, the role of the Federal Aviation Administration will be played by a kangaroo. Read more →
If there’s once concept that needs to be copied in the news business, it’s StoryCorps, the project which provides a microphone for people to tell their personal stories. It’s based on a truism that gets scant attention in newsrooms: Everybody has a great story to tell. Everyone’s journey is fascinating. Read more →
We submit to you that nobody understands the Christmas spirit the way Keith Richards does.
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Last weekend’s protest at the Mall of America could make an entire syllabus for a public relations class at any area university. It’s a battle of the messages and it involves people who know what they’re doing.
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Flip Saunders, the coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves, shifted attention from his worst-in-the-west (and not by a little) franchise by delivering yet another shot at Love, whom the Wolves will play tomorrow night in Cleveland.
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Joe Cocker died today. He was 70 years old. As if Boomers needed another reason to feel old as dirt. Read more →