Bob CollinsIt was only last week that I wondered on Twitter why we don’t hear a lot of controversy surrounding the Girl Scouts?
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.
The meteor was traveling an estimated 33,000 miles per hour. That’s a lot of energy converted to a shock wave.
Enough, from it appears, to register in South Dakota’s Black Hills, too.
The meteor above, wiping away history in White Bear Lake, the hardest words to say, winning women and Minnesota sports, and another love story.
People in 205 countries today are taking up the idea of walking out of work or school to dance, raising awareness of the fact that one in three women worldwide will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.
The kid with game
It’s certainly unusual that the CEO’s blog is able to provide such a scathing rebuttal to the review. It’s even more unusual to have a journalism ethics debate break out in the usually dull auto section.
Here’s my theory: The bigger public spectacle you make of your wedding proposal, the shorter your marriage.
Love stories, a tribute to a musician, hockey politics in Farmington, the people who stop to help, and finger guns.
A giant leap
Embracing winter with sculpture, the day in violence, is there a link between violence and video games, where are the Minnesota philanthropists, and no arms…no problem.
One day you’re working in the oil fields of North Dakota. The next day the president of the United States is putting a medal around your neck, telling you you’re one of the very few recipients of the nation’s highest honor.
Matthew, a 16 year old from northern Minnesota, is battling cancer and his Make-A-Wish is the restoration of his car — a Dodge Charger.