Bob Collins
What is it about actors who become singers and then go on talk shows and act like jerks?
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.
Several stories in the ‘news’ today that are intended to raise questions about the way we raise our children.
The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office today dropped terrorism charges against 8 people involved in protests surrounding the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
Pirates, plastic surgery, portly pupils, pencil sketches, and paper clippy. All in one, ummmm, post.
Inaccurate flood projections, tributes to a fictional character, tributes to a real one, a list we didn’t make, and a generation without a clue.
Laws banning gay marriage are falling and the number of states allowing gay marriage has doubled in the last week.
As a baby boomer, Vietnam still seems like only yesterday to me. Maybe that’s why I’m one of the few people in this newsroom of mostly younger people who still finds the images of a former Navy pilot standing at Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi, where he was shot down in the war, so stunning, Read more →
Steve Cannon, volcanoes, earthquakes, getting off the hamster wheel, and the crime of the century in Lake Wobegon.