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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for March 2018
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Joe Smith earned $61 million dollars during his playing career, CNBC says. He’s living paycheck to paycheck and has $157,000 in debt. Read more →
“Can we just stop with this already though?! It’s not funny anymore,” the San Diego reporter said. Read more →
A Wall Street Journal report shows Best Buy and other retail chains are alienating legitimate customers as they chase down the fraction of store returns that are considered fraudulent.
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If there’s one thing that radio listeners — and some radio employees, too, I’ve noticed — don’t like, it’s the advancing technology that allows us access to information on demand, even if it provides an opportunity to stem the decline of radio as a relevant medium.
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Journalists haven’t yet figured out how to properly report on politics in American in 2018. News organizations report ‘fake news’ because politicians are making fake news and their job is to report what politicians are doing. And what politicians are doing is distracting, misinforming, and deceiving the nation. Read more →
Marie Wright, Canada’s lead for the women’s wheelchair curling team at the the Paralympic Games in South Korea, is ostensibly talking about curling here but is really offering a life lesson. One rock at a time. Read more →
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Motorola has spent a lot of money trying to get you addicted to your smartphone. It’s worked splendidly; people are spending most of their days looking at their phone.
So color us skeptical about a new series of ads from the tech giant lamenting that what they wanted to happen happened. Read more →
After its owner was stabbed, a dog stood vigil outside a hospital for four months, not knowing its owner was dead. Read more →
Anytime you can marry science, fire, smoke and David Bowie, it’s a good thing.
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Rollingstone, Minn., is dying. When its only bar burned down two years ago, the community lost its meeting place. Now, it’s school is closing . Read more →
Employees of the Diocese of La Crosse had faith that their pension plan would help them retire. It won’t. The Diocese has canceled the pension program and will cut a one-time check for the workers instead. Read more →
‘Representation matters,’ Jessica Curry writes in today’s New York Times.
She should know. This is her daughter, Parker, who is at the center of an instantly iconic photograph at the National Portrait Gallery. Read more →