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Linemen with helicopters string wire on the CapX2020 project in Fergus Falls. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for October 2014
Step into the NewsCut Wayback Machine and set it for September 2013, when some local sportswriters were calling for the head of University of Minnesota football coach Jerry Kill, who had the audacity to have epilepsy.
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Golf courses here once would stay open until Christmas in good weather. In a warmer-than-normal fall this year, many courses have already called it quits for the season. There’s little to suggest it’ll make a comeback. Read more →
It was a lovely moment this morning when the Canadian House of Commons had a special sitting with its leadership led into the chambers by Kevin Vickers, the sergeant at arms who saved members’ lives by shooting and killing the man who had invaded Parliament Hill. Read more →
Former Minnesota Timberwolves star Kevin Love has penned a ‘goodbye’, sort of, to Minnesota Read more →
In a growing number of American cities, giving food to a homeless person is a crime. Read more →
There’s a new boss in charge of programming for Minnesota Public Radio News.
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Looking at it in hindsight, ABC’s decision to move an episode — Crime and Punishment — of its sitcom, ‘Blackish’, because it was scheduled to run too soon after Adrian Peterson was charged with beating his son in the name of discipline seems misplaced. Read more →
Amtrak couldn’t have hoped for a more sanitized depiction of riding the beleaguered Empire Builder than they got this morning from CBS News as a result of its invitation to give a free ride to two dozen writers in exchange for their prose. Read more →
An Iowa family honors a man killed in a hay field. They went to a baseball game. Read more →
A St. Louis County child protection worker asked a good question when Gov. Dayton’s task force on the child protection system, formed after an investigation by the Star Tribune revealed how kids are falling through the county and state safety net , held a hearing this week.
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As the headline from NBC suggests, the United States — or at least its media — can’t help but pat its northern neighbor on the head, treating it as a civic child. Read more →
It was a tender moment on the ice Wednesday night before the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh hockey game. Read more →
Lost in the tragic shooting in Ottawa today is a blockbuster story that’s gotten little attention: The white police officer who shot and killed an African American man in Ferguson, Missouri, triggering weeks of racial strife, may well have had a good reason. It started with a report early this morning in the St. Louis Read more →
St. Paul Academy has forfeited a playoff football game against Highland because only 14 players are still playing and officials are concerned it will be too big of a mismatch. Read more →