Bob Collins
Malala Yousafzai leaves a UK hospital.
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.
Some new White House photos show how most of us can’t really comprehend what it’s like to be the president of the United States.
Overestimating your ‘wonderfulness,’ jobs and the health-care law, the value of the UMD brand, whatever happened to the tornado victims, and a Moorhead man steps up for the people he didn’t know.
When I see people drive through so much water, I’m never sure whether I want them to make it to dry ground.
The trouble with Blaer
So long, Heaven
Do nurses have the right to refuse a flu shot, after Macy’s, the 100-year-old employee, the rescuers who die while rescuing, and the Emancipation Proclamation outloud.
Fueled by Rice consists of six friends bicycling for ‘peace, simplicity, and the environment.’
In praise of the cold