Bob CollinsImages from the flood situation in Breckenridge, Minn.
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 flood is a disaster waiting to happen in Fargo and Moorhead. It’s already arrived in Breckenridge, Minn.
Social networking sites have become the primary means for the call for volunteers to help fight the flooding along the Red River.
I’m heading for the west-central region of Minnesota today, stopping first in Breckenridge and then on to Moorhead. If you’re in the area, I’d like to stop and chat with you.
The Red River will flood next week at levels not seen since 1997. Is it likely to be as severe as the great flood of ’97?
You don’t have to watch The Daily Show and its occasional snips of CNBC’s poor prognostication to marvel at the economists’ ability to confound us. You need only look at some of the headlines this week alone. Let’s take deflation and inflation, for example, and the occasional reports of what we should fear. We’ll start Read more →
I’ve always had a “thing” about what cars say about us. There are so many stories in this picture I took this morning. The nature of stereotypes. The declaration of old political bumper stickers. The half-removed Wellstone and Bell stickers. Who tried to take them off? The owner? A Republican?
Eggs on their end, Special Olympics, the curse of the college towns, the church vs. homeless shelter debate, and the ‘whack job yard art’ contest.