Bob Collins
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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.
America never seems so great as it does when it stops to watch a Pong game being played on the side of a building.
A call for more surveillance, in the Oil Patch and missing home, back to the flat land, voices from Laos, and the aurora in Minnesota.
You’ll just have to forgive failed Minnesota Twin — and probable Red Sox Hall of Famer — David Ortiz for the language he used today at Fenway Park
Freedom is messy and ugly
You could probably forgive a Chanhassen snowplower driver if he/she had chosen to destroy a snowman some kids built in a cul de sac.
We really don’t know what a major American city looks like when it’s shut down, because — as near as we can tell — one has never been shut down before.
This message from an innocent man, why I don’t work, the new iconic picture of life in Minneapolis, fleeing the flood in Fargo, and are they taxes or are they fees?
The Boston ‘suspects,’ the surgeon who ran the marathon, then saved people; the blast in Texas, gay marriage rally at the Capitol and how on earth can anyone afford to stop looking for work?
Maggie Koerth-Baker is going to be on MPR’s Daily Circuit tomorrow to talk about last evening’s tragic explosion of a fertilizer plant in Texas. But — spoiler alert — in her Boing Boing column today, she gets to the nuts and bolts about ammonium nitrate fertilizer. In fact, since the 1950s, ammonium nitrate-based explosives have Read more →
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