Bob CollinsThere’s good news and bad news in the story of Jay Mitchell, the homeless man who wouldn’t give up his dog in the brutal cold of a Minnesota winter and paid the price with severe frostbite.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for February 2019
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Since December 2010, Larry Englund has been capturing the jazz scene in the Twin Cities, a genre generally ignored around here, on his blog, Rhythm and Grooves. Read more →
Lovell Tims died a few weeks ago but good luck finding anything about him online, even though he was quite the iconic figure at the U.S. Bank Plaza in downtown Minneapolis. Tims was a shoeshine guy and obituaries cost money, so one was never printed nor published. Read more →
Where did North Dakota go to find a logo and slogan to capture its essence? Minnesota. Read more →
Some kids learn important lessons by what others consider failure. You show up, you work hard. Sometimes it doesn’t work out, so you keep working on it because someday it might. Read more →
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Cody NelsonMegan Bah of Hutchinson is donating her breast milk to a St. Paul mother. She says it’s a way to honor her late daughter. Read more →
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Stick tap. Read more →
No matter how proud we are of facing down the threat of death by nature this week, we are not in the same league as this person waiting for a bus at Lake and Lyndale in Minneapolis Read more →
Maroon 5 might be the biggest musical act in the world that nobody really likes (aside from maybe Coldplay), but they have a chance to redeem themselves at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.
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We don’t even begin to understand how cold weather pants became a ‘thing’, but this year’s polar vortex made frozen pants a thing.
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You know those big heroic sendoffs that communities give their sports stars when they go off to a state tournament?
The robotics teams in Austin, Minn., got one this morning.
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Maroon 5 took the money that many artists wouldn’t take in protest of the NFL blacklisting and treatment of Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback who took a knee during the National Anthem to protest racial inequality in America, and found himself out of work. Read more →