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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for October 2016

Economy

The disappearing local hardware store

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 25, 2016, 8:17 AM Oct 25, 2016
0 Comments

We’ve got plenty of taprooms now, but the neighborhood hardware store is vanishing in a hurry.

Kraemer’s True Value Hardware will close in December. The owner of the business, which has been around for 109 years, says it seems like a good time to retire. Read more →

Arts & Culture

No more spreading of ashes for Catholics

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 25, 2016, 6:31 AM Oct 25, 2016
67 Comments

It might be a bit more difficult to be a good Catholic if you’ve dreamed of having your cremated remains scattered to the wind in some idyllic location. Read more →

Sports

97-year-old vet: ‘Who’s got World Series tickets?’

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2016, 7:41 PM Oct 24, 2016
8 Comments

If Chicago can’t rally around a 97-year old man who survived Pearl Harbor, there’s something wrong. All you have to do, Chicago, is give up your tickets to a Cubs World Series game. Read more →

Portland, Maine police arrest a treePolice arrest a tree

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2016, 7:29 PM Oct 24, 2016
37 Comments
Portland, Maine police arrest a tree

On an otherwise calm day in the world of news, we have learned that dressing up as a tree can be as suspicious as being a clown. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Young Bob Dylan Wikimedia CommonsOn Swedes, sex, and Bob Dylan

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2016, 7:15 PM Oct 24, 2016
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Young Bob Dylan Wikimedia Commons

Perhaps we’re going to have to go back and listen to more of Bob Dylan’s music because we think we might have done it wrong the first time around. Read more →

Health

Health John Oliver hammers Big Pharma for opioid epidemic

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2016, 7:06 PM Oct 24, 2016
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It’s tempting to note that it’s quite a coincidence that John Oliver’s focus last night on Last Week Tonight was the opioid epidemic, coming as it did on a weekend in which authorities announced that two people are dead — so far — in a wave of nine overdoses of opioids in the Twin Cities. Read more →

Seat-belt shaming

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2016, 7:02 PM Oct 24, 2016
24 Comments

We can think of few other deaths for which this shaming over non seat-belt use so routinely and consistently appears. Read more →

Forum newspaper takes a pass on presidential endorsement

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2016, 7:00 PM Oct 24, 2016
28 Comments

The normally conservative Fargo Forum is declining to endorse a candidate for president. Not since Lyndon Johnson was challenged by Barry Goldwater in 1964 has the Forum editorial board not endorsed the Republican presidential candidate. Unlike its other editorials, the Forum hands the endorsements to the company CEO and his son — William C. Marcil, Read more →

Health · Sports

Parents in denial as evidence mounts that football hurts kids’ brains

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2016, 6:57 PM Oct 24, 2016
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For the most part, parents can be pretty over-the-top when it comes to protecting their kids from risks real and imagined. So why are they letting them play youth football? NBC reports on a study being released today that shows the brain changes after just one season of suiting up, even if the player doesn’t Read more →

Arts & Culture

Obituaries on the radio

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2016, 10:14 AM Oct 24, 2016
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I’m filling in for Tom Weber at 11 a.m. today on MPR News (91.1 in the Twin Cities). Here are a couple of links I’ll be referring to during the broadcast on obituaries. This is the post I wrote about Stuart Schumacher and his wife, Melissa, who started an effort to help people write obituaries Read more →

Sports

Cleveland pitcher, Minnesota bride-to-be find the Internet is a nice place

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2016, 5:27 PM Oct 21, 2016
13 Comments

Most fans of the Cleveland Indians had never heard of Ryan Merritt, until he pitched his team into the World Series. Now they’re rewarding Merritt and his fiancee, a Rochester area native. Read more →

Arts & Culture

A cure for politics? Minnesota’s Boundary Waters

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2016, 1:45 PM Oct 21, 2016
11 Comments

No pressure, Boundary Waters, but the New York Times this afternoon is telling the nation you’re the cure for the political cesspool gripping the nation right now.
Read more →

Crime and Justice

Cybercriminals staging major attack on U.S. websites

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2016, 12:41 PM Oct 21, 2016
6 Comments

What’s happening to the nation’s big websites today is yet another reminder how vulnerable we are. Read more →

Economy

End of the line for the skyway to nowhere

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2016, 9:19 AM Oct 21, 2016
12 Comments

St. Paul is about to lose one of its most distinctive and quirky downtown landmarks. Read more →

Economy

Sales pressure drove Wells Fargo banker to drink hand sanitizer

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2016, 8:00 AM Oct 21, 2016
11 Comments

Wells Fargo has taken actions to rid itself of the stench surrounding a scandal in which it pushed products on unsuspecting customers as part of its employee sales goals. But it has done nothing for the working stiffs who were also victims as scapegoats while the company execs tried to keep the scandal from claiming themselves. Read more →

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