Bob Collins
Getting along after a snowstorm, can the NHL survive, end of the American ascendancy, a choir’s dream, and maybe the ‘cloud’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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.
Parking the bus
End of a ping pong icon
All about Sacred Heart
The end is near
The landfill philharmonic, saying ‘goodbye’ in music, the snow-emergency song, West Fargo’s guitar man, and the worst Christmas song ever.
It could happen
Whatever became of that guy who was kayaking from the Northwest Angle of Minnesota down the Mississippi and on to Key West?
This should — but, sadly, probably won’t — serve as a wakeup call to all the insipid radio morning shows whose appeal is the outrageous stunts the morning teams do for the audience that craves them. Earlier this week, a radio station called the London hospital where Prince William’s wife was being treated for her Read more →
Ray Emory’s day, the old Facebook comforter, two by two — same sex marriage in Washington state, the birth and death map timewaster, and the giant sing-along at the State Fair.
We have officially reached the point in America in which important concepts can only be explained Gangnam style.