Bob CollinsJoe Blow has a concealed carry permit. If I were in Louisiana, that sentence could put me in jail.
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.
NPR has just released a pretty neat app that shows the damage from the tornado in Oklahoma this week.
Sabrina’s best day ever
Show us your papers, the fallout from the vaccine scare, what Zach left behind, the Legacy debate, and Moorhead owners push back,
It’s getting harder and harder to expect journalists to cover disasters without it leading to some sort of debate over religion.
Minneapolis and police department transparency, the people who go to work when a tornado hits, Timberwolves math, the new voice of NPR, and coffins the old-fashioned way.
If the tornado had hit MSP
The spring we missed out on, and the snow and nonsense of April and early May in Minnesota, was part of a season that may have spared others a tragedy like yesterday’s.
Getting it right, after Joplin and north Minneapolis, the Legislature as a reflection of us, Moorhead homeowners are on their own for the next flood, and GI Joe plays baseball.