Bob CollinsA failing grade for Minnesota schools has more to it than meets the eye.
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.
Where did Lindsay Whalen of the Minnesota Lynx go after the WNBA season ended here? Turkey, where her team won the championship this week.
Maybe it’s time to take a marketing page from Sweden, where a campaign has launched to allow people to ‘book’ rooms where the homeless sleep.
The land of the rotting pipe, an annoying tax, a man and his dog, depending on the dump, and when you’re confronted by the unexpected.
Photographer Kent Frost has produced a video showing the one second he filmed of every day of his life in 2012.
The spirit of Star Trek
In the winter, whole neighborhoods spring up on area lakes, but none is more popular, perhaps, than Mille Lacs Lake.
A voice for vulnerable, on motivation, maybe our kids are smarter than we think, Iowa and the hostile work environment, and ice climbing in Saint Paul.