Within the next day or so, millions of Americans will head to the airport. They’ll be in foul moods, anticipating flight delays, shoving against the humanity that dares get on board the plane 20 seconds before they do.
One piece of advice: Be more more like Canada, America. Also: Bring an accordion. Read more →
If there’s a kid you could pull for, it’s Garrett Grommesh of Moorhead, who was born with spina bifida and was just 10 years old in 2010 when the show Extreme Home Makeover showed up in Moorhead to build the family a new home near Concordia College. Read more →
These are sneakers. Unless they’re on your feet, they don’t do anything but sit there. They don’t make the coffee so it’s waiting for you when you get up. They won’t dust and vacuum. They won’t repair your broken marriage. They’re just sneakers. And kind of silly looking ones too. Read more →
Dish Network has dropped WCCO and all CBS stations from its broadcast lineup in a dispute over the amount of money the satellite TV service pays to CBS. Read more →
At the beginning of its broadcast this morning, CBS devoted 9 minutes of airtime to the story of Charlie Rose, who has now been suspended by the network. Read more →
As promised, the Facebook series from comedians Bill Murray and his brother, Brian-Doyle Murray’s dropped this week. They spent three months last season touring minor league ballparks.
There are worse ways to start the day.
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Here’s a list of topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News, 91.1 in the Twin Cities. Read more →
Broadcast journalist Charlie Rose is now caught in his past. Several women who worked for The Charlie Rose Show between the 1990s to 2011 have told the Washington Post he made unwanted sexual advances to them including ‘lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas.’ Read more →
It was a bad case of the Mondays for the production crew of The Weather Channel this morning. They’d set up at the perfect spot to broadcast today’s demolition of the Georgia Dome on its Facebook page.
For forty minutes, the channel provided coverage, until the big moment. Read more →
Bernie Ockuly took a job as a long-haul trucker when he got swept up in a dying economy years ago, and he’s been driving across the country ever since, stopping every now and again for a bit to eat and a word or two with people along the way about why they do what it is they do. Over the weekend, he learned about what it takes to keep the show going in Fairmont. Read more →
What we have in the case of Al Franken now is a test of whether a politician can survive by seeking cover and issuing statements. The Minnesota senator has not done any interviews nor held a press conference to address last week’s allegations of sexual misconduct against him. And now there’s another. Read more →
There is no law in Minnesota that says an employee of the state can’t live half a continent away and work remotely, but Fox 9 says it’s been stymied in an attempt to find out how pervasive the practice is. Read more →
Eliahu Pietruszka, 102, thought he was the only member of his family still alive. He thought the rest had perished in the Nazi extermination camps. He found out recently, however, that his brother had lived, and had a son. Read more →
If you couldn’t do what you love doing, what else would you do?
Hands up if the answer is ‘blowing up stadiums’. Read more →
The cult leader was a waste of good carbon who spread nothing but misery during his 83 years on the planet. It’s unseemly to speak ill of the dead, of course, but Manson is an exception. Read more →
Bob Collins