Bob Collins
Stifling a senatorial yawn, shoving Jim Lehrer aside, whatever happened to the swine flu, an end to vocal chords, and Tom Friedman for $75k.
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.
Some newfangled communication tools are being used to unsnarl the coming Minnesota budget impasse. It might be time for the old-fashioned kind.
The history of overrides, Hubble, war games’ new look, people who get to play for a living, and credit-card-debt free by 25.
The story of a Sleepy Eye couple and their cancer-stricken child mirrors one of the nation’s landmark cases.
Five at 8: May 8, 2009
Based on their performance so far, we can safely speculate the Minnesota Twins are the cleanest team in sports.