Bob CollinsNorth Dakotans don’t like having people make fun of their state.
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.
The contagion threat, clear eyes and full hearts on the campaign trail, the joy of not having kids, ready, fire, aim, and if you can’t honor a 91-year-old waitress, who can you honor?
The problems with crosswalks
1,000 words: What are you looking at, kid?
Maybe you should be a welder, the lip synced debate, Livingston meets DeGeneres, stop-and-frisk caught on video, and the day in the marriage-ban debate.
Spencer Wirth-Davis, aka Big Cats, debuts a musical project inspired by his mother, who died after a battle with ovarian cancer.
The more Jack Welch talked about his unemployment rate conspiracy, the sillier he looked.
I’m not sure I can look, but if you can stand the possibility that skydiver Felix Baumgartner won’t survive his attempt at the highest, fastest free fall in history, then here is live coverage.
The battle of the Bird
End of the line for the ‘Railway Man,’ why gays can’t march in Anoka, pills for performance in school, ‘and no religion, too,’ and a day in the life of the Minnesota mental health system.
The homecoming
Karl Stoerzinger had only a few hours to solve a devastating problem for a wheelchair racer.