Bob Collins
A B-25 flying over to Oshkosh for the big aviation convention over the weekend went a little out of its way, picking up Dayton, Ohio, native Dick Cole, 98, who is one of four remaining “Doolittle Raiders.” Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for July 2014
Paul TostoLife’s not all that bad if you’re a kid in the Minnesota Twins low A rookie league. Read more →
Starting today I am on vacation. And by “on vacation,” I mean today I’m co-hosting The Current’s morning show with Mary Lucia, which is a pretty easy way to spend the last work day of the week. So there’s no posting by me today. Next week I’m off to Oshkosh for the annual air show. Read more →
Here's Knoblauch's mug shot from when he was arrested yesterday after allegedly beating his wife in front of family. pic.twitter.com/XQL5zXcQ06 — Jace Larson KPRC (@jacelarson) July 24, 2014 The Minnesota Twins have decided to cancel their hall of fame induction of former secondbaseman Chuck Knoblauch. The only question is why they intended to honor him Read more →
The world responds to a Facebook posting about a little boy who may have little time left. Read more →
Stay away from collapsing icebergs. That’s the obvious lesson from this video posted this morning by a couple in Newfoundland. Read more →
For minutes of cubicle fun, today’s recommendation goes to Don’t Fly Drones Here, a website that shows where you can fly your quadcopter, to be more accurate in terms. Take the Minneapolis Saint Paul area, for example. As colleague, Scott Olstad points out, he could fly his quadcopter over NE Minneapolis, but not over Saint Read more →
Rochester is the Minnesota city is the only metropolitan area in the north to make the top-10 list of happiest cities. Read more →
If there is such a thing as a “magical parenting formula,” perhaps Kou Moua and Zaaj Thao know it. The Pioneer Press profiles the couple, who came here years ago unable to even speak English, have the two most recent valedictorians at Saint Paul’s Johnson High School, and two younger children are in the running Read more →
An astronaut’s camera captures death, not tranquility, over Earth. Read more →
Ask the AP about the importance of commas when tweeting about Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Read more →
With almost no publicity outside of the Boston area, there’s a fascinating showdown taking place between grocery store workers and their corporate overlords. Read more →
The men of Minneapolis — some of them, anyway — are getting international attention for their Neanderthal ways. A Minneapolis woman — identified as 28-year-old Lindsey — has been filming men who catcall. It’s not pretty. “I am genuinely interested in what place this is coming from,” she tells Buzzfeed. She created Cards Against Harassment, Read more →
If you want a great example of how a pro athlete can be a proper role model for kids, look no further than the scene around Target Center last evening. The Lynx are the home team but it was the Atlanta Dream who seemed to be the team of choice for many of the fans, Read more →
McDonald’s, showing a rather odd mastery of the art of public relations, has fired the South Carolina single mother who was sent to jail because she let her daughter play in a nearby park while she worked at the fast-food restaurant. Read more →