Bob CollinsWearing brown shoes with a blue suit — or even wearing a blue suit — can cost you a job, at least if you’re a Rutgers University student, which was under fire this week for turning people away from a job fair for their fashion choices. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for February 2017
The question of rebuking anti-Semitism should be a hanging slider that any president could hit out of the park. Read more →
Rob Manfred said the sport doesn’t ‘need to be fixed,’ but focus groups have told him all the dead-ball time is turning them off.
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It was never much of a secret how things were going to end between Norma Cook, 89, and singer/actor Chris Salvatore, 31. She was going to die. Read more →
For all of the Minnesota Supreme Court cases that I see in which justices try to figure out what the Minnesota Legislature intended when it passed a law, I rarely see the Legislature subsequently take up the law again.
Today, sort of, was an exception when a committee at the Minnesota Capitol considered whether to tighten the law that the court ruled on when it overturned the expulsion of a student for bringing a knife to school.
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You’ll want to sit down for this one.
Another driver tried to drive onto the ice on Lake Minnetonka today. Read more →
Michael Trimble doesn’t have any arms, thanks, he says, to the nuclear meltdown in Chernobyl.
But he rides a bike and, thanks to some modifications a friend made, he can carry the bike a short distance.
But now the bike has cost him his job. Read more →
If you fly small airplanes in Florida, there’s a pretty fair chance you own a big paperweight, at least in the area where President Donald Trump has set up his winter White House from time to time. Read more →
Where does ‘the left’ end and ‘the right’ begins? Is there a middle somewhere where people are neither left nor right? Or is it that people who are in the middle — if it exists — just don’t post on the Internet or make it on to NPR? Read more →
The mark of true charity is that which occurs without fanfare.
Mike Ilitch, who died last Friday, provided an example that only is becoming known — or at least, well known — after his death.
He paid Rosa Parks’ rent Read more →
The New York Times’ Upshot blog shares a little secret today: The economy is taking off and a lot of people haven’t noticed. Read more →
A refugee from Somali had been walking for 21 hours when he crossed from Minnesota to Canada. He was nearly frozen. A CBC reporter met him and put him in his car to warm him up and called the police. Does that challenge an ethic that says journalists shouldn’t get involved in the stories they cover? Read more →
In upholding a lower court ruling, the Minnesota Supreme Court said the woman, who was suspected of possessing meth, had no expectation of privacy when visiting another home.
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The day may come when we’re advised during icy conditions to ‘walk like a penguin’ and a growing number of people will not know what a penguin is. Read more →
The way the bigshots in baseball are trying to speed up the game, you’d think that people were forced at gunpoint to watch it.
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