Bob Collins
It shouldn’t be taking this long to overturn an Army decision denying women who served as WASPs the dignity of an Arlington National Cemetery burial. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for March 2016
Paul TostoHennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman says his office, not a grand jury, will make the final call on whether to press charges against Minneapolis police officers in the November shooting of Jamar Clark. That’s a victory for protesters. Read more →
Times are apparently pretty good in Charlton, Mass., a small town in south central Massachusetts where a roving band of rappers is scaring kids. Read more →
The Jolly Green Giant is now officially dead after a good run in the Minnesota River Valley. Read more →
St. Paul is not a pedestrian-friendly city. An average of one pedestrian is struck by a vehicle every other day.
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Nobody knows how to sell you a box of cereal like General Mills, whose various ad campaigns for Cheerios have tapped into social change and, at least to some degree, propelled it.
General Mills Canada this month, a Cheerios-branded campaign focused on another species: bees.
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All across Minnesota, rural grocery stores are holding out against the choices people make. Read more →
Only in the presidential campaign of 2016 would we we be analyzing the handwriting of Pete Rose to fact-check a candidate’s claim. Read more →
If the Rev. Amy Kosari didn’t know somebody who knew somebody, a woman with limited English ability who was shot twice in the chest recently might still be isolated on the Mayo Clinic-St. Mary’s campus. Read more →
Around Grand Forks, Marilyn Hagerty’s sister, Shirley, was almost as famous as the Grand Forks Herald’s writer herself. Read more →
Meanness is in in America these days. And, slowly, so is the utter lack of sportsmanship by fans at high school basketball games. Read more →
Yesterday wasn’t the first time that ‘Hamilton’ star Lin-Manuel Miranda rapped at the White House. He appeared there six years ago for a performance.
But yesterday was the first time the president of the United States was his sidekick in a freestyle rap in the Rose Garden. Read more →
It’s not unusual on a warm day to see kids set up a lemonade stand to make a couple of bucks. But these Minneapolis kids wanted to buy a house, or more specifically help a neighbor keep hers.
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A year ago, when Willmar, Minn., was sending layoff notices to all non-tenured teachers, I asked those in the profession, ‘why do you bother?’
It’s a good time to ask the same question because this afternoon, the school board is likely to do the same thing. Read more →
Shelley Bramhoff Sikorski didn’t have a lot of time to get a picture to go viral before Facebook removed it. It was a Valentine’s card her gay son received at the Edmonton party goods store where he worked. A new manager took over recently and his hours, were cut. Read more →