Bob Collins
Despite a cheery headline on Minnesota test scores, the underlying numbers are a disaster.
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 vice presidential two-step
Now that Hillary Clinton is out of the race for president, she is subjected to the same question that dogs all ex-candidates: ‘What happened?’
Jim McKay, 1921-2008
The role of color in the campaign for president
Clinton’s concession
When the price of oil goes up, the price of gasoline goes up. When oil goes down, the price of gasoline goes up less fast.
Some people learn by seeing, some people learn by listening. Which one are you? The prescription drug companies are betting you’re the former.
Blogging the weather
Why doesn’t Wisconsin have some responsibility for fixing a bridge that connects the two states? Because it doesn’t connect the two states.
Another flag flap