Bob CollinsHow often are babies given to the wrong mothers in hospitals?
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.
If you’re the type to toss the sports section of the Star Tribune to the side, you probably missed a story that should’ve been on the front page.
Every now and again on these pages, we consider the possibilities of cars that fly — or planes that drive.
When to put the camera down, the bright lights of North Dakota, finances the gay way, the view from space, and forgiveness.
Normally, I’d be a little embarrassed to present a Simpsons character explaining something as important as the coming ‘fiscal cliff.’
The art of secession
See your future you
On Brubeck
To be black in Duluth, snowshoing for the ‘singing wilderness,’ crooks and seniors, how HMOs are stiffing parents of autistic children, and the 86-year-old paperboy.