Bob CollinsIf you’re looking for a long-form interview with Gov. Tim Pawlenty, you best turn to the national media.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
A defense attorney uses Google to prove that pornography is acceptable in Florida. It wouldn’t work in Minnesota.
‘There was no pact,’ pregnant teen says
News organizations have stopped daily coverage of the war in Iraq, but it’s not because the American public doesn’t care.
The story behind ‘the catch.’
St. Paul stack to be blown up
If it turns out there was no pact among Gloucester, Mass. teens to get pregnant, is there still a story there that doesn’t exist in Minnesota, too?
Some in the Midwest say flood victims here are more self-reliant than their Hurricane Katrina cousins.
George Carlin, 1937-2008
A picture of a lost tribe in the Amazon isn’t a hoax, per se. But it’s not what Brazilian authorities said it was, either.