Bob CollinsGas prices have jumped 16-percent in a week.
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 mathematical formula of war, a thought for your penny, apologies, the flu, and e-cigarettes.
Whether the flu outbreak is overstated or not is a matter of some conjecture, but perhaps we can agree that attempts to graphically represent the outbreak generally fail miserably.
We don’t usually see traffic jams outside the World Headquarters of News Cut, but we had one this afternoon for about 10 minutes. The problem? Falling glass from the Wells Fargo building at Seventh and Cedar in St. Paul. MPR’s Tom Weber was the Tommy-on-the-spot photographer. Pat Skinner, the general manager of the building, said Read more →
If all of Minnesota were to get together and sing a song, (a) where would we do it and (b) what would we sing?
A new movie has its roots in the lives of a man who was ridiculed for daring to try something different.
Five at 8: 5/4/09
Pardon the interruption
The St. Charles evacuation
If David Sedaris delivered pizza