Bob Collins
Improv Everywhere posed as city workers providing a solution to the “texting and walking” epidemic.
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.
Joshua Jones, the young man in this video, doesn’t say anything. He can’t speak, a result of cancer.
Baseball and the struggle for redemption
Playing politics, beemageddon, Jablonski goes pro, stories that make you want to call your mom, and pro athletes as role models redux.
Rain is heading toward Boston. It will bring out the flowers, turn the grass green, and tell us it’s time to move on.
Photos of ‘the invisible,’ alive in Cleveland, burying a bomber, the unprofessionals in the cockpit, and the Arboretum in May.
Space isn’t going to be anywhere near as interesting as it’s been for the last six months once Cmdr. Chris Hadfield returns from the International Space Station.