Bob CollinsWho’s responsible for the botched predictions of how much pulltab revenue would be available to give to a Vikings stadium? Plus: The $6,000 pricetag to watch this week’s Supreme Court hearings on same-sex marriage.
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.
It took a long time to get the current photography-happy astronauts on the International Space Station to snap an overhead shot of the Twin Cities. But it finally happened today.
Poverty in color
A week for same-sex marriage, when native casinos fall on hard times, the inseparables, prom season begins, and the winter bike commuter.
Groundhog to get comeuppance
The air safety equation, a constitutional test by the side of the road in Eagan, same-sex marriage and the Supreme Court, what if they lived, and the public radio show bracket.