Bob Collins
A funny thing happened on the way to the predicted drab fall colors.
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.
Media navel gazing in wake of Minneapolis shooting, when neutral is taking a position, the bike matador of Minneapolis, that’s one for the ‘band kids,’ and throwing the book at airline passengers.
There is one piece of information that will remain a secret, according to the FAQ the police department released today:
Art or vandalism?
More ‘yellow rain’ fallout, should we disconnect, the same-sex marriage debate, designing cities for people, and moose calling in the Superior National Forest.
The Northwest Angle to Key West
We pause from our usual Friday activities (pretty much a combination of staring out the window and staring at the clock) to announce that there’s still a war in Afghanistan going on.
Let’s just go ahead and add this to NewsCut’s growing list of people who make it rough for the rest of us, what with their creative ways to propose and all
The great pickleball kerfuffle of 2012
Myths of workplace violence, where public education campaigns fail, a second chance to quiz alleged racist remarks, civil conversations, and it helps to have friends.
A few weeks ago, I profiled the Bus 52 team that is traveling the country, stopping in each state, and finding stories of people doing good work therein.
Today, they released one of the videos they produced while here: A group using water skiing to bring people together.