Bob CollinsWhy would anyone think it was a raid? Because the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has Minneapolis and Hennepin County in its sights. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for March 2017
Paul TostoI hadn’t been to a Sears in years before going there a few months ago; I spent $5. That one sentence explains today’s news that Sears may finally be close to the end, for real. Read more →
Audrey Marie Luke, 15, may be in Kenyon, Minn., where the town’s police chief posted a personal message that has the town pleading with her to come home. Read more →
Upon review, this wasn’t such a good idea at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter.
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One day you’re a valued employee; the next day you have no value when all you did was blow out a few candles. Read more →
A law professor says he has rarely read a dissenting opinion as callous as the one Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch wrote. That’s why Sen. Al Franken pursued it at Gorsuch’s nomination hearing on Tuesday. Read more →
A plane crashed between Thunder Bay and Sault St. Marie last week and it’s a mystery so far. There was no body at the crash site, and no tracks in the snow. Where’s the pilot? Read more →
If you’ve never had to raise your children without the benefit of the electronic gadgetry, one can understand the panic the FAA’s ban on electronics is having on parents. Read more →
This is World Down Syndrome Day and an ad agency suggests we use the opportunity to consider the phrase ‘special needs.’
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If history is any guide, within a short time after Neil Gorsuch is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, most Americans will have no idea who Neil Gorsuch is. And by history, I mean the present where most Americans can’t name a single justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The Boston school system is the first in the U.S. to throw out the Mercator map, which distorts the side of the continents closer to the poles. It’s the product of trying to take a spherical map and make it a flat one. North America and Europe look bigger than they actually are in relation to the rest of the globe. Read more →
It’s not surprising — anymore — that a woman in Moorhead was accosted at a grocery store by a man who objected to her wearing a hijab. The key element of WDAY’s story of the incident is this one: Bystanders did nothing. Read more →
U of M engineering student Collin Brown got his diploma yesterday after university president Eric Kaler agreed to hold the ceremony early so that Brown’s dad could see his son get a diploma. Read more →
Every year around this time, I feel like a slacker.
It happens whenever the Bush Foundation reveals the recipients of its fellowships. Twenty-four were selected this year, according to a press release.
They’ll each get up to $100,000 to pursue their projects and interests.
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A year ago, a report said the Veterans Administration crisis hotline was putting vets on hold. Politicians said all the things you’d expect politicians to say. The VA said it was hiring additional staff to comply with the inspector general’s report. And then nothing really changed.
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