Bob CollinsOne concern when Meria Carstarphen was named the superintendent of St. Paul schools was that she didn’t stay in jobs very long. It may be a well-founded one.
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.
Chris Dillman thought he could get out in front of the economic wave, and find work in a bigger city like Duluth before more people got laid off and became his competition
A surprising number of students on the News Cut on Campus Tour are interested in getting an education and then going out and doing good, and if there’s money to be made in the process, so much the better.
Becky Segbee wants to travel the world when she graduates from college. She’d like to get to Liberia so she can see the parents she hasn’t seen in nine years.
There’s a demand for dental hygienists, but there aren’t enough openings in colleges to train them
You don’t have to ask Ray Ballard if he thinks the plunging economy will affect his future; it already has.
On Campus: The 4th-grade teacher
The economic meltdown may well finish off the brands that gave us a pathway to the nostalgia.
One picture tells a better story of the state of the economy than all the news stories combined.
There’s plenty of hand-wringing about the political implications of an expansion of Islamic Law, but few news sources explain what Islamic Law entails for Pakistan.