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.
There’s nothing quite so patriotic — occasionally entertaining, and, yes, sometimes loathsome — than the few minutes elected officials on municipal committees give to citizens to says whatever they want to say in the time allotted at the open forum portion of meetings.
In Fergus Falls, you’ll be needing one of these now.
It’s hard to argue with the selection of this year’s winner of the JFK Library’s Profile of Courage Award.
Another step for a health exchange, when the ice gives way, the lure of the sled dog race, the reward for loyalty in Rochester, and budget cuts and bad weather.
Do gifted learners get enough attention, the 86-year-old face of voter fraud, people swamped in rising economic tide, what’s it like to know a drone is looking for you, and when can same-sex couples kiss in public?
The weather forecasters, whom we delight in mocking, have been remarkably good this season at predicting storms.
Parents v. county in HIV baby dispute, the price of booze, is the end near for SXSW, where snow smells like money, and the people who do ‘throwback’ jobs.
The Transportation Security Administration today changed its list of rule on what is allowed to be carried on board airliners.
Remember all that talk about how a lot of snow was needed to alleviate the drought griping parts of Minnesota and the rest of the U.S. ? Forget it, it won’t make much difference, according to the state climatologist.
Two people staged a murder inside a New York elevator this week, then filmed people’s reactions.
Bob Collins