Bob Collins
It’s a bad year for the flu, but it’s not worth panicking over.
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.
Follow-up: Blake Cognata
The red waveQuite often, the message conveyed in suicide prevention is that if you ask for help, things will get better. That’s not always the case, however. A study released this week shows more than half of the young people who planned, thought of, or attempted to kill themselves had received at least some treatment. Nearly 1,400 Read more →
Rex Trailer died last night and Minnesotans probably don’t know who he was. But every kid in America had a Rex Trailer in his/her life.
What the ‘nosy old ladies’ know about you, who cares about sewers, what snow teaches us about roads, the icons among us, and how an accident connected two people forever.
No smoking on the bus
Follow-up: Tig Notaro
But in firing Burke, the Maple Leafs also got rid of an important voice for gay athletes.
Get a flu shot, wash your hands regularly, and remind your boss today to change the culture of the American workplace.
‘A’ is for ‘chutzpuh,’ lipstick on Saint Paul’s pig, the right to videotape police, Kluwe on Kluwe, and the day on Planet Creepy.