Bob Collins
This is National Suicide Prevention Week, something you’re not likely to hear about because the journalism community generally believes that talk of suicide encourages suicide.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for September 2011
The Center for Investigative Reporting has pulled the curtain back from the world of counterterrorism at the Mall of America
It’s a fine line some businesses are walking between a respectful honoring of the deaths of hundreds of New York emergency responders on 9/11 and taking advantage of a national tragedy to increase business.
An anonymous woman’s kindness at the fair, revisiting the Republican convention in St. Paul, Pawlenty’s sparks, iconic roles of the World Trade Center towers, and microfinance missiles.
A breakthrough in news intimacy
What’s uniquely Minnesotan that would resonate with people in the rest of the country when viewed from the air?
Bobi Ombui of St. Paul sent us this picture of the Skyride at dusk at the State Fair. It is a fine — and somewhat sad — metaphor.
The scared society, the cost of ‘safety’, Duluth rallies for blinded high schooler, naming names in the paper, and people doing good.
Some of us are still shocked enough by the recent announcement that MPR News’ legend Gary Eichten is retiring at the end of the year, that we’re not quite prepared for the series of lasts that are about to follow.
Glittering the Fair
In NewsCut’s continuing quest to sample the diversity of weekend entertainment in Minnesota, we give you the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion Parade, held yesterday in Rollag.
Champs x 2