Bob CollinsMichelle Messer of Big Lake, Minn., a big fan of Ellen DeGeneres, didn’t know the fix was in to get her on the show, which airs today. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for January 2019
There are plenty of critics about the value of passion when it comes to employment. We’re looking at you, Mike Rowe, who’s made a good living following his. So we were heartened to read a sweet little story today in the Kanabec County Times about Donald Erickson, whose passion is grocery stores. Read more →
A political party has been so effective at demonizing government that it’s asking a lot anymore to expect sympathy for the innocent victims of the collapse of a functioning government — government workers. But that doesn’t mean Mallory Lorge Bischoff’s story isn’t an appropriate reminder that beneath most headlines, there is a human story to consider. Read more →
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China today released the video of its lunar probe’s landing on the far side of the moon earlier this month.
Not surprisingly, at least for those of us who still are fascinated by space and its technology, it’s pretty cool. Read more →
Cody Parkey missed a field goal (officially a blocked kick) on Sunday night that would have sent his team deeper into the NFL playoffs, and people wanted him dead. They literally wanted him to die. Read more →
No, we don’t know who this is skating on Lake Minnetonka and casting fate to the wind.
But we like your spunk, kid. Read more →
The family, understandably, is ecstatic. Reporters will do their job and document the joy. You will do yours and — despite the occasional public declarations otherwise — consume as much as you can. That’s how these things work.
And yet, we need to keep the imagine of a ghost uppermost, of a girl whose parents are dead and whose emotions are flat. Read more →
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What year is this? 2019? And we still think it’s funny to put people in this horrible, awkward space? Read more →
It’s unlikely we’re going to find out who the grumps are in Richfield who complained about the memorials at a bench built to honor a man who was killed in 2017. But from the sound of KARE 11’s report, there are plenty of them. Read more →
There was a time, whippersnappers, when we couldn’t go shopping on Sunday in these parts. The churches ruled retail, at least on that day. Basically, we were then what North Dakota is now. Read more →
A growing trend on the slopes makes so much sense, it’s surprising nobody thought of it before: chairlift speed dating. Read more →
Given the grief that parents at youth games give officials on behalf of their little charges, why would anyone want to be a referee or umpire anymore? In Wisconsin, as elsewhere, they don’t. Read more →