Bob CollinsDo astronauts ever got bored looking at the earth?
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.
What makes the image of soldiers guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in hurricane rain particularly poignant is the individual soldiers from the Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment do not have to.
A stunning comparison of the effect of Hurricane Sandy on air traffic all over the United States.
Hurricanes and climate science, why do we burn things when our teams win, measuring racism on the basketball court, the ethics of unmasking, and killing time on the Mississippi.
If you chase down your wife and shoot her to death in the daylight of a strip mall, you’ll get your name and picture in the paper, and nobody will suggest it will lead to more husbands killing their wives. But if you take your own life, alone, outside a school, you’re invisible.
Tig Notaro’s now-famous stand-up routine after she found out she has cancer, forces us to consider how we press on through the times.
The science of misinformation, are the kids moving back in or moving back out, are you even nice, the first dance, and empowering Latinos.
Where are the funny conservatives?
Dead or alive