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Archives for February 2018

This or That

Curling team accidentally gives Delta a PR headache

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2018, 9:01 AM Feb 26, 2018
24 Comments

The gold-medal-winning U.S. curling team got a little lesson in the dangers of Twitter before heading back to Minnesota and a heroes’ welcome in Duluth.

It was all good for the fellas, tweeting to Delta to see if a gold medal could get a guy an upgrade. Read more →

Sports

Iowa player misses free throw because ‘life is bigger than basketball’

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2018, 8:10 AM Feb 26, 2018
4 Comments

Jordan Bohannon, Iowa’s sophomore guard, went to the free-throw line with a chance to erase Chris Street’s name from the team record books. All he had to do was make a free throw. No big deal; he’d already made 34 in a row. Thirty-five would’ve given him the new record. He didn’t want the new record. Read more →

Sports

Parkland school’s hockey team wins state championship, weeks after shooting

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2018, 7:01 AM Feb 26, 2018
8 Comments

In about a month, this is going to be the most popular team in the state of hockey, which is saying something considering that’s nearly the time when the NHL playoffs. Read more →

What’s on MPR News today? 2/26/18

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2018, 5:58 AM Feb 26, 2018
1 Comment

Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →

People doing good

Let’s take care of each other

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 24, 2018, 2:36 PM Feb 24, 2018

In a ‘it’s every person for himself’ era, looking out for each other is still a pretty grand attitude, as an act in Minneapolis on Friday proves. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Sports

In Diggins commercial, Afton loses the gold to Stillwater

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2018, 2:43 PM Feb 23, 2018
44 Comments

That tender Comcast tribute to Jesse Diggins hometown of Afton appears to actually be Stillwater. Read more →

Sports

Olympic committee’s penalty isn’t stopping Russians from doping

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2018, 12:59 PM Feb 23, 2018
14 Comments

How do you know someone at the Olympics is doping.

They wear T-shirts that say ‘I Don’t Do Doping.’

Also, they’re Russian athletes. Read more →

The jobs we do

A TV first: Iowan with a hijab delivers the news

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2018, 10:32 AM Feb 23, 2018
28 Comments

A Quad Cities woman has become the first to wear a hijab while reporting full-time for a mainstream American TV station. Read more →

Education

Brainerd school begs parents to stop letting kids watch Jeffy the Rapper

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2018, 9:36 AM Feb 23, 2018
46 Comments

The Brainerd Dispatch reports that mostly boys — big shock — are mimicking ‘obscene and disturbing behavior’ in the video series. Symptoms apparent include Jeffy’s signature moves of fondling his crotch and humping a box of Cheerios.
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Education

With schools on edge, a Wisconsin parent couldn’t resist doing something stupid

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2018, 8:36 AM Feb 23, 2018
57 Comments

The last thing teachers and students need right now is some guy walking into buildings, past the administration area where he’s supposed to sign in, into his kid’s classroom and handing the teacher a cardboard gun. Read more →

This or That

NPR lets itself off the hook after sexual harassment review

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2018, 7:15 AM Feb 23, 2018
16 Comments

A review of how two news executives sexually harassed their way through NPR this week results in the execs getting a full vote of confidence. Read more →

What’s on MPR News today? 2/23/18

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2018, 6:00 AM Feb 23, 2018
1 Comment

Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →

Education

School districts differ on protests

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2018, 3:47 PM Feb 22, 2018
18 Comments

School districts are caught in the middle in an upcoming national protest against school shootings. And they do not agree on how it should be handled. Read more →

What’s on MPR News today? 2/22/18

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2018, 5:54 AM Feb 22, 2018
32 Comments

Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear on MPR News today. Read more →

This or That

Newsweek’s having a week

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 21, 2018, 3:45 PM Feb 21, 2018
7 Comments

From all indications, Newsweek is exhibiting a death rattle this week.

It started when the magazine retracted its story suggesting that ‘bots’ took down Sen. Al Franken. Read more →

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