Bob CollinsKeillor again avoids the question of retirement.
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.
Until proven guilty, Nice Ride’s data problem, painting the American worker, return to Union Station, and the Gift Generator.
There must be more boring ways of spending a day than sitting and waiting for glaciers to melt and collapse.
When the temperature rises above freezing — as when it hit 36 in the Twin Cities today — there’s a show that seems choreographed by Mother Nature herself.
North Korea successfully fired a rocket today, raising the possibility of a long-range missile that destabilizes a barely-stable area of the world.
When the Pope tweets
When you can’t muzzle technology, protesting straight weddings, the bell-ringing marathon, dreaming of a blacktop Christmas, and how do we keep Kevin Love happy?
Who’s not in? Plenty of people more talented and meaningful than a few of the musicians who are.
Rubber duckies in the news
In Minnesota, it often doesn’t really matter what a politician does, as long as the roads get plowed in the winter and the potholes get fixed in the spring.