Bob CollinsWhen a president speaks on the economy in the middle of the day, he’s often targeting his remarks to calm a jittery market. Presumably, President Obama’s speech at the White House had some of this element to it.
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.
Loss of an Airman
Lifting the veil, math don’t care, if Sandy were a wedding, the life of a suburban meth addict, and the art of leaving Minnesota.
Unless something changes soon, the zipper merge is going to be this century’s conversion to the metric system in the ’70s. Great idea, made perfect sense, and was dead on arrival.
For no particular reason… This video released this week is actually the second of the series. Here’s the first one…
The pay-what-you-can place
A week or so ago, this plane had to get from Minnesota to Florida. All that was needed was a pilot willing to bundle up enough to survive the frigid temps of flyover country.
When social media saves your life
The political bends, the moment of victory, nature’s path, seeing adversity and conquering it, and space shuttle alerts.
In the wake of yesterday’s election, Wall Street had its temper tantrum today, closing down more than 300 points in one of the worst days in years. Analysts tend to make these things up as they go but they’re blaming it on several factors such as four more years of fiscal policies, the coming “fiscal Read more →
It’s all over in the Michigan Supreme Court race where Bridget Mary McCormack finished as the top vote getter. She has her little sister to thank, as well as Jed Bartlett, C.J. Craig, and the West Wing reunion.
The animated election