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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.
The closer one gets to the Minnesota Capitol and the exhausting politics therein, I find, the harder it is to remember that Minnesota is still a heck of a place to live.
Crooks, cheats, liars and the federal stimulus; teacher licenses, 1908 style; Patrick Swayze insists he’s not dead; the slippery slope from fear to panic and the Klingon dictionary.
Religious life in the Obama era
What would lead a couple to turn 12 buildings on the farm in Wisconsin into the world’s largest bookstore?
Few news stories will lead reasonable people to shake their head more so than the bomb dropped by a commission in Ireland today.
What the U.S. soldiers and the Taliban have in common, surviving a recession the Taiwan way, listening to the people is a pain in the neck, and newspaper critics who drop their subscriptions. Oh, and Mary’s chicks.
Graduation speeches
Jesse being Jesse
You have to feel a little sorry for Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Grove City, who picked a bad time to rub his eyes on Monday as the Legislature wrapped up his work.
Hospitals are facing tough times in the aftermath of the legislative session. But medical workers are back doing what they do today anyway.