Bob Collins
It was almost as if Porky’s, the long-time burger joint, was lying in state as people came to pay their last respects
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Icons
Icons: The vanishing general store
Ruth Adams, polka icon, dies
After the World Trade Center towers collapsed, Roy Chelsen spent weeks sifting through the wreckage. His friends say that’s what caused the cancer that killed him last night.
Billy Taylor, 1921-2010
Six degrees of Monday Night Football
The baseball great has been admitted to a hospital. We’ll never see the likes of him again.
A little bit of history went up in smoke in Inver Grove Heights this afternoon when what’s left of the Rock Island Swing Bridge burned.
Freddy Schuman was the only person who could make people outside of New York want to root for the Yankees.
There was a time in the broadcast news business when an editor could earn a lot of respect by preventing a wayward reporter from splitting an infinitive. Those days are gone, so maybe even people in newsrooms won’t know who Edwin Newman was.
A tree falls in Amsterdam
Death of a conservative icon