Bob Collins
‘The genocide of my people is almost complete,’ Russell Means said in this 2009 interview.
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.
Unplanned adventure, loss, and gratitude; the electoral college, the lessons of high school sports, rehab from inside rehab, and the North Shore from above.
Down in Lawrenceville, Kansas, one of the homeless shelters serves up food with a little dignity. The people who struggle for a meal aren’t the only ones who benefit.
On his blog, Predictably Lost, today, Daniel Alvarez writes of the wonder of coincidence when he ran into someone he’d met before. Me.
Songified debate
Good grief, science, it’s been almost four months since you found the Higgs Boson particle, a discovery that could lead to determining the origin of mass. Have you done anything lately?
If the locked out Minnesota Orchestra musicians are looking for a way to generate a little public support and interest, two words: flash mob.
The animated debate
This land, is your coffee pot watching you, the gasoline price question, it still gets better, and the dream of flight.
In the irrational exuberance that followed Sunday’s daredevil jump from 24 miles above New Mexico and Texas, Americans were a little too scientifically challenged in stating the significance of the event.
The message that never seems to get through
What hath politics wrought?