Bob CollinsThe shooting rampage in Santa Monica, Obama defends domestic spying, the Goldilocks economy, and the secrecy around the Brodkorb trial. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for June 2013
Is there a more beloved person in Public Radio than Carl Kasell? So it’s not surprising that people have been concerned that the former NPR anchor hasn’t been on his regular spot on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me for weeks. Read more →
A delightful thing happened this week when a flight from Beijing to Macao was delayed on the tarmac for over three hours. A group of musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra, in China to mark 40 years since such cultural visits between the U.S. and China were re-established, broke out the instruments. Read more →
Over the years, I’ve passed along posts from “Sam,” a fully-unnamed regional airline pilot out of Minneapolis who writes the “Blogging at FL250” blog about his life as an airline pilot. I didn’t know his last name until today, when Flying Magazine published Sam Weigel’s article, “A Day in the Life of an RJ Pilot.” Read more →
Kevin Love is happy, again.
For a mess of a franchise that does business at Target Center, that’s good news. Read more →
We’ll have to live without Jon Stewart on the Daily Show for the rest of the summer and the reason why is not at all comedy.
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Free to be spied upon, in search of happy endings at commencements, two by two on day one of same-sex marriage licenses, last night’s Northland lights show, and a visit from Mr. Rogers. Read more →
The first same-sex marriage licenses, heroin’s big comeback, defending the phone spying, an update on the Pennsylvania lung-transplant girl, and is it time to legalize online poker?
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It’s great sport to criticize TV meteorologists for their penchant for hyperbole, but it’s a different kind of grief that’s descending on Oklahoma City meteorologist Mike Morgan. Read more →
Sixty-nine years ago today, 157,000 men participated in the landing on Normandy, known as D-Day. More than 6,000 died in the invasion. At the Memorial Day Concert in 2007, actor Charles Durning told his story of being one of the first soldiers on Omaha Beach. The scene he described was anything but glorious. It was Read more →
Maybe it’s time to stop inviting sports teams to the White House to celebrate their accomplishments. Nobody really cares about the visit, it’s a 10-second story if it does make news, and it’s starting to become a soapbox for some of the players. Former Minnesota Viking Matt Birk is the latest sports star to turn Read more →
There’s nothing like a good meme. And this didn’t take long. That theme has also been turned into a video.
Tracking down leaks? Everyone’s doing it. Read more →
Was the Patriot Act worth it, the signs we’re moving past racism, the people who need organs to live, the language that divides us, and Boston Marathon coverage payback. Read more →
A tuition freeze at the U of M, another lawsuit over the unionization of child-care workers, the bear facts of the attack, forget about bringing knives on planes, the old-lady Powerball winner, and what do you mean you didn’t know you were pregnant? Read more →