Bob CollinsIt took longer than it should have for Dunkin’ Donuts to spring into action after what its employees did to a homeless man in upstate New York on Sunday night. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
People are jerks
Here’s a tip learned the hard way: Get your name on your elderly parents’ bank accounts. Read more →
KARE 11 reports an immigrant from Ecuador, who raised enough money to buy her own ice cream truck, was attacked at a park in northeast Minneapolis last month by a person who slashed the tires on the business. “Said we were illegal and that we were parked illegally and that we were illegal and he Read more →
If there’s still justice in the world, someone is tracking down this Chicago Cubs “fan”, who has no knowledge, we presume, of one of the rules of being a baseball fan: Give the kid the ball. Read more →
The Capital Gazette, where five journalists were slaughtered last week because someone didn’t like the job they did, penned a disturbing ‘thank you’ in its Sunday paper.
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Kingsport, Tennessee’s athletic director wins the competition for understatement this week with this observation after a brawl broke out between parents watching their girls play softball. Read more →
A happy end to a sad story of a veteran who felt compelled to sell his hearing aids can’t mask an important truth: people can be jerks. Read more →
You get a bunch of men together and the testosterone and alcohol can be explosive. Read more →
Many people in the media get a fair amount of feedback from the audience that’s fair game. Women in media, particularly women in TV news, are treated horribly by — wait for it — men. What are you thinking, fellas? Read more →
Sharmake Mohamed, of Moorhead, is looking for work. He’s afraid of the railroad workers he transported for a living because they, apparently, are afraid of him. Read more →
‘The letters shake me up because they are written by regular, everyday teenage girls from across the nation,’ Nikolas Cruz’ lawyer said. ‘That scares me. It’s perverted.’ Read more →
The civilized world will put up with a lot of incidents of savagery. But killing a dog isn’t one of them.
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Nancy YangThis season’s Bachelor is no longer welcome in Minnesota after what he did to Prior Lake’s Becca Kufrin. Read more →
Reflecting America’s values, customers cheated L.L. Bean and then cited a loophole to make themselves feel better by doing so. Read more →
We can’t have nice things, even in heaven. Read more →