Bob Collins
Abortion fight takes center stage, if teachers taught in hip hop, computer gamers unravel mysteries of the brain, can workers be trusted when to work, and poverty in black and white.
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.
James Robert Deaner, of Grand Valley State University, was setting out to find if there was a link between a hockey player’s facial shape and aggression and where he was drafted in the National Hockey League draft, when he discovered something else: There’s an apparent link between the month in which they were born and Read more →
Given that there’s been so much written and reported about the haves, have-somes, have-most, and have-nots, in the last few years, there seems to be more at work here in people’s incorrect perceptions of the distribution of wealth in the U.S.
The implications of a cure for AIDS, where are the kids in local sports, the Klan in North Dakota, tribute for a code talker, and one for all the ‘tortured souls.’
The story out of Florida today is a horrific one. A man was in his bad around 11 p.m., when the earth opens up and swallows him. Jeffrey Bush, 37, is presumed dead below his home near Tampa.
You don’t usually hear about the kids in the school band getting into trouble. They tend not to jump on tables at lunch doing the Harlem Shake, or suspended from band for making sex tapes, and they’re not usually the schoolyard bullies. Band — music programs — must be doing something right, or the programs just seem to attract a decent brand of child.
The same-sex marriage debate will begin anew in Minnesota tomorrow when sponsors of a bill to legalize same sex marriage unveil their initiative.