Bob Collins
The largest riverboat ever made makes its first stop in Saint Paul in more than four years.
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.
1,000 words: the new iPhone
Embarrassed to ask for a helping hand, the $13,000 raise, taking God out of football, the lucrative lure of bad art, and how was your summer?
A neat video produced by the Walker West Music Academy, which provides today’s reassurance that, no, all the kids did not spend the summer indoors playing video games.
The greatest political commercial ever
Pawlenty becomes a player, rail riding, the night the Cincinnati Reds met Teddy, the art of recovery, and the crime lab controversy explained.
1,000 words: The line
An actor who plays a fake character hosted a fundraiser for one of the chaps running for president. So now there’s a report of a little backlash against the beer company for whom the actor’s fake character pitches.
It’s not just personal responsibility in the fat biz, the over credentialization of our culture, return of the Babe, do we care how the Romney tape came to light, and turning good teachers into great teachers.
It’s not spreading as quickly as, say, a Romney fundraiser, but this video is racing around the InterTubes today.