Bob CollinsThe ACLU had threatened a lawsuit against the Kenosha Unified School District after some parents and cheerleaders objected to the award and the New York Times wrote about. The coach circumvented the outrage, however, by announcing that parents would be excluded from the next team banquet.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
People cannot possibly still be oblivious to the carnage from driving distracted, yet people still drive while texting. For decades, authorities have warned drivers not to try to go through standing water, and people keep driving through standing water and become the poster children for additional warnings not to do it.
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If we stopped referring to people who ride bicycles as ‘cyclists,’ would people who drive cars stop being jerks to them?
Let Australia be our guide. Read more →
Why, no, we do not ever tire of the annual promotional hype surrounding an appearance in these parts by the Harlem Globetrotters. Read more →
Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, a Republican from rural Pennsylvania, insists she was just praying when she led the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Monday in what appeared to be a broadside against non-Christians. Read more →
Ayd Mill Road is a metaphor for the entire transportation policy of Minnesota. For decades, it’s been a road in search of a vision. With officials and residents unable to agree on one, it collapses under the weight of its own existence. Read more →
The nation is awash in red ink, a path hastened by President Trump’s tax cuts in 2018. It was pretty much a given that subsequent budgets would have to pay for the giveaway through cuts to those with the least political power, but the announcement this week that the administration will whack support for Special Olympics still took people by surprise and a fair amount of disgust. Read more →
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It’s really not that people don’t want solid news reporting; they just don’t want to pay for it and they’re going to keep that insistence, apparently, until it becomes a moot point. Soon. Read more →
It’s been a tough year to be a tow truck driver. Few people think kindly of the people who haul their cars away during snow emergencies. They’re just doing their jobs, people.
So it’s good to see one getting a little love for a simple act of concern and kindness.
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Now that the state is on the eve of banning the handheld use of cellphones, let’s talk pig, specifically driving with a pig on your lap. Read more →
We’re certainly aware that it’s fashionable these days to proclaim baseball an irrelevant and dying sport, with its staid traditions and constant stories of connecting parents, grandparents, and children. That, we will argue, is the strength it has left and to prove it, we point today to Jim Walsh’s excellent story in Southwest Journal about Read more →
Former WCCO anchor Jamie Yuccas’ interview this morning with UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi captures perfectly the contradictory nature of her sport to outsiders. Read more →