Paul Tosto
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Paul Tosto
Paul Tosto is an editor for MPR News.
You can almost hear the heavy sigh from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources as the agency reminds people not to use their fish houses as garbage cans. Read more →
Minnesota’s economy outperforms Wisconsin’s economy. It’s been that way for years. Those trends have accelerated since the end of the Great Recession. Read more →
The Red Bulls will spend six months in Liberia, starting in April. They’ll provide support to U.S. military forces but will not be responsible for treating Ebola patients. Read more →
Baseball players hardly ever get hurt so badly that an ambulance is driven onto the field. But it happened tonight in New Britain, Connecticut, to Byron Buxton, the Twins’ top prospect, the top prospect in all of baseball. Buxton and another outfielder collided tonight going for the same ball. Just before the collision. @RockCats Buxton going Read more →
Life’s not all that bad if you’re a kid in the Minnesota Twins low A rookie league. Read more →
The story of how a Home Run Derby ball damaged a kid’s hand? It’s not true. Read more →
Crude rules the rails right now. Oil deliveries are trumping food right now, so forget Amtrak passengers. Read more →
Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” manuscript goes for $2 million. Read more →
The huge increase in oil production in North Dakota and Montana has brought an equally huge jump in oil and chemical spills tied to drilling. Read more →
The talk’s been bubbling for a week or so that Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor was poised to buy the Star Tribune. Today, the side went public detailing Taylor’s plans to buy the state’s biggest newspaper. Read more →
It’s easy to be angry reading through today’s U.S. Justice Department’s takedown of Toyota detailing the car company’s reprehensible behavior. It hard to where to start. Read more →
Can you brag about going to the BWCA for just a day? Read more →
Maddux and Glavine were great pitchers. They were also part of the best sports commercial ever.
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There are still wide gaps between whites and students of color when it comes to four-year graduation rates, especially in Minnesota. But there is no dropout crisis, here or in the U.S. Read more →