Bob Collins
The city of 170,000 has never gone more than a little more than five years without being struck by a tornado.
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.
Gas price theory: Rockets and feathers
Cancer claims music icons
The new Dust Bowl, when people care for people, comedy and the era of same-sex weddings, the best part of going to a Twins game is watching an old movie, and the land of Tonka.
Ross Gundlach didn’t have to bother with the hearing in Des Moines on his request to adopt a dog.
If the scandals — real or imagined — this week have done nothing else, they’ve properly set up the summer of 2013 as a time to observe the 40th anniversary of the Watergate hearings
There was another big jump in gasoline prices overnight in Minnesota when gas stations raised the price of gasoline by another 20 cents a gallon, to $4.39 at most major outlets.
The loan racket, race and mass shootings, sharing the road, a welcome home, and haircuts for hugs.