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Basketball champs help classmate ask girl to the prom

Basketball champs help classmate ask girl to the prom

You could probably have forgiven the Red Wing boys basketball team if they'd decided to sleep in last Friday. After all, they had a big game that night with long-time rival Northfield for the section championship, and Red Wing hasn't won a championship in 12 years. But the team had more important things to do.
by Bob Collins

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Marathon bombing victim killed in car crash

Marathon bombing victim killed in car crash

This image was one of the many that stood out at the Boston Marathon bombing three years ago next month. A Boston firefighter carried a badly hurt Victoria McGrath to a medical tent.
by Bob Collins

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Keillor serenades a man with Alzheimer’s

Generally speaking, public radio listeners break down into one of two groups: those who are cool with Garrison Keillor singing and those who consider it fingernails on a chalkboard. Both groups, however, are likely united with a touching moment Saturday in Milwaukee, from where A Prairie Home Companion originated.
by Bob Collins

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Even for ‘progressives’, mental illness is a joke

At last night's debate, Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders perfectly illustrated why efforts to improve the lives of people with mental illness run into so many roadblocks: It's still 'OK' to make fun of them.
by Bob Collins

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Facebook posts critical of students are racist, BLM says

Facebook posts critical of students are racist, BLM says

The latest controversy involving a public employee posting on Facebook doesn't involve any specific racial mentions, but Black Lives Matter wants a Como Park Senior High School teacher fired anyway.
by Bob Collins

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In Minnesota, come for the hockey, stay for the hair

In Minnesota, come for the hockey, stay for the hair

Even for people who don't follow the state high school hockey tournament closely, the annual video documenting the weird tradition of growing 'hockey hair' has become must-see online TV.
by Bob Collins

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Washington reporter who dissed Red Lake County will move to Red Lake County

Washington reporter who dissed Red Lake County will move to Red Lake County

There's so much lovely irony in the news today that Washington Post columnist Christopher Ingraham has decided to move to Red Lake County in Minnesota. Newcomers spend a lifetime trying to find welcoming souls in the state, and all Ingraham had to do was write something nasty about the place.
by Bob Collins

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Romney’s nine digs at Donald Trump

Romney’s nine digs at Donald Trump

Mitt Romney stepped into the fray of the 2016 presidential race today with a speech aimed straight at Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner.
by Tracy Mumford

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The art of the obituary: The special ed teacher

In our growing collection, we've read plenty of powerful essays on the nature of mental health, depression, and suicide, but we're hard pressed to recall one as powerful as that for Aletha Pinnow, who took her own life in Duluth last month.
by Bob Collins

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So long, Sweet Lou

So long, Sweet Lou

Louella Mae Snider provided the soundtrack for one of the best bars in America.
by Bob Collins

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