Bob CollinsVirginia Hasek’s obituary says she died rather than vote for either of the mainstream candidates. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for July 2016
People who think the justice system doesn’t take the death of pedestrians at the hands of distracted drivers seriously enough have another piece of evidence to support their claim.
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Youth is wasted on the young, and there’s nothing better than being a kid in the summer while the old crumbs go off to work.
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A dispute over an unmowed patch of land has an attorney arguing an ordinance requiring it be clipped is unconstitutional. Read more →
Rosemary Dibbley’s order was the same every day at a doughnut chain. So there was no reason to break the habit just because she died. Read more →
Six years ago, a settlement ended a lawsuit against a brutal and out-of-control Metro Gang Strike Force, that regularly broke down doors, constitutional rights be damned. Some of the victims received payouts with the $3 million settlement. But required police training to change relationships with communities of color never happened. Read more →
It’s hard to see how the perpetrators of yesterday’s attack in France aren’t gleeful that people like Newt Gingrich are giving them exactly what they had hoped for Read more →
A Metro Transit bus driver, who kicked a man off his bus for not paying the fare, and then allowed several passengers to get off the bus to beat the man up — the fare-jumper had grabbed onto the bus’ bumper to prevent it from going anywhere — is immune from being sued, a federal appeals court judge panel has ruled in a decision filed today. Read more →
Bus drivers for DART — Dallas Area Regional Transit — were told not to go downtown when a gunman ambushed police, killing of them.
So Don Washington went downtown to help get people out. Read more →
Now that we’ve gotten the whole texting-and-driving problem solved… Read more →
It’s usually a pretty beautiful moment when arts & culture and the world of sports collide.
Last night at ESPN’s ESPY awards, Chance the Rapper proved it again with the concluding moment: a tribute to Muhammad Ali. Read more →
It says something about the state of the nation, perhaps, that the room was packed in Owatonna yesterday when FBI special agent Joseph Malhoit gave a talk to the Steele County Safety Council on how to survive a mass shooting. Read more →
Flooding is causing nightmares for the people of Pine and Kanabec counties in Minnesota.
The only good news is we’ve got new additions to our growing scrapbook of TV reporters who think they have to stand in water to tell you about it.
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‘Almost all of the places you are seeing problems between the police the community are very segregated. You are not seeing these problems as often in more integrated places,’ Orfield tells The Atlantic.
It’s not as if we weren’t warned. Read more →
Garnette Cadogan, from Jamaica, loves to walk. Then he moved to the United States and the joy was diminished. He’s a black man in America.
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