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Showing respect for the office of president isn’t bias

If there's one radio listener complaint that's as predictable as rain, referring to the person in the Oval Office as 'President' or 'Mr.' is it.
by Bob Collins

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Heather Wick pays the price — again — for social media message

Heather Wick pays the price — again — for social media message

Everything is forever on the Internet, so there's a pretty good chance you've seen a post like this in your Facebook or Twitter feed and perhaps you've even dutifully followed the instruction to repost it without questioning anything about it. 'Make her pay,' the instructions say, and people online are only too happy to spread the hate in return.'
by Bob Collins

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Prices falling for Super Bowl tickets

Prices falling for Super Bowl tickets

It's probably only a coincidence that it happened just after a big snowstorm in the host city, but the price of Super Bowl tickets at US Bank Stadium are sliding.
by Bob Collins

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What’s on MPR News today? 1/24/18

Here are the topics and guests you'll hear today on MPR News.
by Bob Collins

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Crookston senior can’t use picture of his gun and pickup in yearbook

The annual controversies surrounding yearbook photos are off to an early start this year with the school board in Crookston deciding to back away from a policy announced earlier this month that bans guns from yearbook photos.
by Bob Collins

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Eagles fan who ran into concrete pole says he’s ‘OK’

Eagles fan who ran into concrete pole says he’s ‘OK’

Jigar Desai said he wasn't trying to catch the train when he ran into a concrete pole. He just saw a bunch of Eagles fans and wanted to get them pumped up. Alcohol was involved.
by Bob Collins

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For Kevin Love, it’s like old times

As long as his team was playing well -- which it has since his trade from the Minnesota Timberwolves -- Kevin Love wasn't likely to be dogged by the type of locker room rumors as he was with the Timberwolves. Those days are over.
by Bob Collins

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Likely ‘Girl from the North Country’ dies

She was once a true love of Bob Dylan’s, or so the song goes. Echo Star Casey, rumored to be the Hibbing native Dylan wrote about, has died in California, the Duluth News Tribune says. She was in her late ’70s. Like Dylan, she was different from her classmates, the paper says. Helstrom and Dylan…
by Bob Collins

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In Mankato, a clean house comes with a side of strip joint

From the 'Department of I Don't Hardly', we note the Mankato Free Press article today that indicates there's a market in that community for people to come to your house and clean while naked. Because of course there is.
by Bob Collins

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