Bob CollinsYou’re a 95-year-old man whose home has been destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. Where do you start to pick up the pieces when you’re 95?
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.
People who object to images of people about to die also tend to remember the story with which they’re connected.
Are subsidies and incentives worth much, the last prom in Onamia, Mr. Johnson’s opus, we’re more preoccupied with our phones than each other, and Love unplugged.
Of no particular value other than it’s awesomeness is this video posted today showing every landing in San Diego over a four-and-a-half-hour span on Black Friday.
Why they knit
Shoeless again in New York, Hibbing vs. Dylan, worked up at a football game, Winona’s elf, and is the 5-second rule real?
How much do we elevate the importance of professional football players? A tragedy in Kansas City today provides an answer.
It was 35 years ago…
I want to make things all better for four kids in Cold Spring today and, of course, I can’t. I don’t know what to do and I recoil at the notion that there’s nothing any of us can do but cry out and move on.
The message a Michigan school doesn’t want kids to hear, a dad’s dream meets a dad’s reality, the declining tax burden examined, castle laws and dead teens, and the nationwide search for ‘the hat.’
Wait ’til the next next year
The consequences of a bad day at work
Why can’t Norway take a joke?I’ve written in the past about how most economic news seems to revolve around a basic fact that experts got something wrong. They do so with alarming frequency. If the market collapses today, it’s because someone’s earnings didn’t meet expectations. When the unemployment rate is news, is when it is above or below what was Read more →