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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

This or That

For Metro Transit, just one word: plastic

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 17, 2019, 12:15 PM Jan 17, 2019
20

Metro Transit is one of the few transit agencies that still uses fabric seats, the Star Tribune’s Tim Harlow reports. But maybe not for long. Read more →

Science

Giant ice disk concludes its 15 minutes of fame

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 17, 2019, 9:45 AM Jan 17, 2019
9

It is somewhat comforting that the nation can still be united enough to marvel at a chunk of ice in a river. Read more →

This or That

Maplewood market’s woes challenge a community to step up

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 17, 2019, 8:39 AM Jan 17, 2019
22

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.
Read more →

Education · Sports

Chasing NFL money can wait for U of M player

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 17, 2019, 7:11 AM Jan 17, 2019
20

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 →

What’s on MPR News – 1/17/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 17, 2019, 6:00 AM Jan 17, 2019
27

Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →

Politics

No getting away from politics at high school basketball game

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2019, 2:18 PM Jan 16, 2019
65

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 →

Arts & Culture

Here’s what you can learn by painting a giant mural in South Dakota

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2019, 9:28 AM Jan 16, 2019
12

‘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 →

This or That

Sheriff warns of scam fundraiser for alleged Closs killer

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2019, 8:12 AM Jan 16, 2019
5

In the category of people are horrible, we give you this from the Douglas County, Wis., sheriff Read more →

This or That

Response to Gillette ad proves some men are better

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2019, 7:10 AM Jan 16, 2019

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 →

What’s on MPR News – 1/16/19

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2019, 6:00 AM Jan 16, 2019
23

Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →

People doing good · Politics

It’s all good for furloughed worker who rationed her medicine

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2019, 3:50 PM Jan 15, 2019
13

Her insulin supply has been restored. Her faith in people, too, perhaps. Read more →

Arts & Culture

The day a guy with 170 Twitter followers changed the world of information forever

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2019, 1:53 PM Jan 15, 2019
5

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.
Read more →

Crime and Justice

Mankato mom didn’t secure car seat, then her kid fell out of the vehicle

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2019, 9:30 AM Jan 15, 2019
41

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 →

People are jerks

If you can’t tip something nice…

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2019, 8:43 AM Jan 15, 2019
50

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 →

This or That

Our desperation for human contact

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2019, 7:06 AM Jan 15, 2019
11

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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