Cody NelsonThe officer is on administrative leave. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for August 2017
Nancy YangThe Yankees are in a funk right now, so their broadcasters need something to talk about, right? Read more →
Good news is hard to come by this week. But there was some at a pizza chain in North Dakota. Read more →
Richfield-based Best Buy is apologizing after being accused of price gouging Harvey victims. A photo of one of its Texas stores selling a case of water for nearly $43 went went viral Tuesday. One Houston resident sent me a pic of water he saw being sold for *$42* at a nearby Best Buy. They were Read more →
You know it’s bad when the National Weather Service has to add a whole new color or two to its map depicting how much rain has fallen in southeastern Texas. #Harvey in perspective. So much rain has fallen, we've had to update the color charts on our graphics in order to effectively map it. pic.twitter.com/Su7x2K1uuz Read more →
The devastation from the effects of Hurricane — now Tropical Storm — Harvey is still unfolding in Texas. Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Brock Long said that 50 counties in Texas are affected by the flooding and that a tremendous amount of rainfall is in the cards for southwest Louisiana, The Associated Press reported. The Read more →
Alamo Drafthouse is hosting a clown-only screening of “It.” Read more →
The Cheerios’ shade of yellow isn’t “inherently distinctive” enough to qualify for a trademark, the federal Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ruled this week. General Mills had spent the past two years trying to trademark “the color yellow appearing as the predominant uniform background color” on Cheerios boxes, Ars Technica reports. Turns out the Cheerios Read more →
Mowers at the Crystal Lake public golf course found an unwelcome symbol on one of their greens earlier this week.
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Tracy Mumford
The State Fair has been unleashed: Twelve days of delectable fried foods, adorable baby farm animals and long-standing family traditions. Or, if you look at it another way, it’s nearly two weeks of traffic, sweaty crowds, people chugging milk and strangers parked on your front lawn. The State Fair may be the great Minnesota get-together, Read more →
Unicorn Riot, a nonprofit media collective, lets us peer inside the extreme-right’s corners of the internet thanks to a trove of documents it was leaked. Read more →
In resigning his post as the State Department’s science envoy, David Kammen made a little acrostic, apparently giving a one-word instruction for Congress.
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Much of the Midwest has has grave inequality issues between black and white people, according to a study from 24/7 Wall St. Read more →
ESPN says the decision was made “collectively.” Read more →
Jon Dingwall likely saved his sister Taylor’s life in a fatal UTV accident last weekend. Read more →