Bob Collins
Today’s tweet from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety — and the accompanying picture of Megan Goeltz — is about as infuriating as it gets.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for February 2019
We’re more than a little interested in whether the unnamed person in the Robbinsdale Cooper High School Class of ’71 ever amounted to anything now that she’s come forward with her overdue copy of Poetry and the Age. Read more →
The notion of a Super Moon wasn’t even a “thing” until March 2011, when the moon came within 123 miles of the closest its ever been to earth Read more →
There are really only two kinds of dog owners: humans and pigs.
A walk — any walk — reveals this fact with the number of dog droppings that weren’t picked up. How hard can this be?
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Travis Paulson, of Eveleth, has contacted all of the politicians who represent him and hasn’t been impressed with their response to the problems of hundreds of thousands of people who have diabetes: the cost of insulin is — or getting to be — beyond their means.
Paulson should know. Read more →
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins, who was unimpressive in leading his team to missing the playoffs, had the temerity to like the weather in Florida. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
George Mendonsa has died and you’re forgiven if the name doesn’t ring a bell. For a number of years, we only knew him by one moment on V-J day. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
A funny thing happened at a wrestling tournament for little kids in Kimberly earlier this month: some wrestling broke out. Read more →
Like most of our sports stars, Crashed Ice has put the Twin Cities in its rear-view mirror and cuddled up to Boston. Read more →
‘If you want to live in a province that protects its children, occasionally you have to roll over in bed and check your phone,’ a columnist in Toronto writes in response. Read more →
Jalen Johnson, one of the nation’s best high school basketball players, went to the free-throw line Wednesday night for his suburban Milwaukee team when Port Washington fans tried to distract him by holding and waving posters with his image.
They appeared to show him wearing blackface, which is odd because Johnson is African American. Read more →
If you needed another example of why our private health insurance system is broken, you needed to look no further yesterday than this tweet thread about a guy who fell into the bureaucratic black hole of the insurance industry and tried to get some common sense to prevail. Read more →
Back in the winter of 1971, Ron Knappen, of Galesville, Wis., went for a drive while he and his wife were on a trip to visit relatives in Illinois for Christmas. He came back with eight old wood wall telephones which he’d bought from someone for $50 each. Read more →