Bob Collins
If the people of Maplewood ever lament the loss of a locally-run market, they have only themselves to blame if they don’t step up in some fashion to help a couple victimized by bad luck and bad people.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for January 2019
Tyler Johnson, the University of Minnesota receiver, is the kind of star athlete that more people should notice — not because of his football skills, but because he knows the value of an education. Read more →
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Is there some Minnesota passive aggressiveness at work in the displaying of a Trump campaign sign at a basketball game between a predominantly white team and a predominantly black one? Or is it just a love a politics? Read more →
‘If we could all slow down, take a moment and understand each other, we would see others for who they really are,’ film producer Emad Rashidi says. Read more →
In the category of people are horrible, we give you this from the Douglas County, Wis., sheriff Read more →
The now infamous Gillette ad audaciously suggesting that men treat women with respect and police the ones who don’t, has accomplished its mission of opening a discussion. It also required us — again — to listen to the sound of a million hissyfits by men who don’t have much to offer after ‘hey, baby!’ Read more →
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Her insulin supply has been restored. Her faith in people, too, perhaps. Read more →
Maybe Twitter would have eventually become an accepted source of news and information if Janis Krums hadn’t been on a ferry in the Hudson River when he was the first one to tell the world an airliner has landed in it.
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Child safety seats aren’t child safety seats unless you have them properly fastened to the car’s seat belts. Observe. Don’t do it like this. Read more →
Well, isn’t this sweet. Someone left a tip for a server at a sports bar in Sioux Falls on Saturday night and the message came through loud and clear. Read more →
We are desperate for human contact. We are desperate for friendship.
Why do we put so much energy into achieving just the opposite? Read more →
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‘The best a man can get’, the long-time advertising slogan of Gillette, is being turned on its head in the #MeToo era. Read more →