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NewsCut

MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

By Bob Collins

Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

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.

Fairness in baseball?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 17, 2007, 8:20 AM Dec 17, 2007
3

The sport isn’t based on fairness, so why start worrying about it now?

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The new gang look

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 17, 2007, 7:32 AM Dec 17, 2007

Gangster are going for the “prep look.”

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No health care miracles

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 14, 2007, 6:39 PM Dec 14, 2007
6

A Massachusetts plan was going to be a model for other states. It hasn’t worked out that way.

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The tentacles of farm subsidies

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 14, 2007, 12:30 PM Dec 14, 2007

Does the $9 someone in Minnesota is getting to grow safflowers do any good?

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Today’s Alice in Wonderland moment

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 14, 2007, 10:15 AM Dec 14, 2007
2

Students who stay up all night to study have lower GPAs than those who don’t.

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Opening the reporter’s notebook

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 13, 2007, 5:43 PM Dec 13, 2007
1

Journalists may think they’re protecting sources. Quite often, they’re not.

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Requiem for a meter reader

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 13, 2007, 4:02 PM Dec 13, 2007
1

To a list that includes buggywhip factories, elevator operators and righthanded sluggers in Twins uniforms, we can add another vanishing species in these parts.

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How the glitch stole Christmas

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 13, 2007, 12:00 PM Dec 13, 2007
13

Technology is a wonderful thing — most of the time. But sometimes it’s what takes Christmas presents away from kids in the poorest county in Minnesota.

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Led Zeppelin tests the ‘net

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 13, 2007, 10:00 AM Dec 13, 2007
1

The rock band’s concert ignites yet another argument over digital rights.

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Swastikas in St. Cloud

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 13, 2007, 7:02 AM Dec 13, 2007

One part of the mystery has been solved.

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Is Minnesota’s sentencing system broken?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 12, 2007, 3:03 PM Dec 12, 2007
2

In the rush to crack down on drugs, have we missed a bigger criminal threat?

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The point of no return

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 12, 2007, 12:42 PM Dec 12, 2007
3

Scientists, who have struggled to give us a sense of urgency on global warming issues, have now given us a new tipping point: hopelessness.

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Word of the year

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 12, 2007, 10:15 AM Dec 12, 2007

It’ll make you scream ‘W00t!’

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In God, and guns, they trust

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 11, 2007, 5:05 PM Dec 11, 2007
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Are the Colorado church shootings a wake-up call to Minnesota churches?

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Timewasters: Street View

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 11, 2007, 3:30 PM Dec 11, 2007

If no work got done today, it’s probably because of Google’s Street View.

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