Bob Collins
How will the young ever retire, a visit to Tim’s Place, stray voltage reconsidered, the unfair world of the bald eagle, and the camera generation.
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.
Target Center management no longer on the block
The comet
Been looking through the seed catalogs to help get you through the last days of winter? Here’s something you should think about planting this year: milkweed.
Women and men are increasingly feeling stressed about trying to balance work and home functions, a Pew survey out today reports.
The risk of the free app, there’s money in parking spots, the search for Kira Trevino, the price of progress, and it’s Pi Day!
A kiss is (almost) just a kiss
How do you fit hours of testimony into minutes of reporting, the bracket game and the search for perfection, the 68-year-old roller derby queen of Grand Forks, the dog with the bucket list, and is stress a real thing?