Bob CollinsVideo from Saturday’s police raid on a St. Paul house.
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.
Denver ties up the comparison competition with a win in the ‘convention inflation’ category.
With a hurricane threatening to cause a natural disaster, RNC officials are mulling whether to create an economic one in the Twin Cities.
The CNN Grill
Ambulance teams from Minnesota and North Dakota are helping with evacuations along the Gulf Coast.
The Twin Cities tried to impress the media on the eve of the Republican National Convention… and succeeded, apparently.
Scenes from a raid
The Ramsey County sheriff has raised his profile significantly with a series of raids before the RNC.
The no-fly zone
The self-styled ‘anarchists’ in St. Paul are positively organized when it comes to stonewalling the media.
The last test of Denver’s ability to host the Democratic National Convention, was how well it got people out of town.
At the end of a national political convention, the big question is always the same: I wonder what happened this week in the real world?