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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

By Bob Collins

Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

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.

Lynx at the White House

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2012, 11:59 AM Sep 18, 2012
1

The Minnesota Lynx are at the White House starting at noon (central). The White House is providing this feed.

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Jimmy Carter’s revenge

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2012, 11:29 AM Sep 18, 2012
6

The person who tracked down the source of the video of the Mitt Romney fundraiser is Jimmy Carter’s grandson.

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End of the gender-specific school event?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2012, 11:22 AM Sep 18, 2012

There is the spirit of the law, and there is the letter of the law.

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Randy on racism

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2012, 10:58 AM Sep 18, 2012
4

Songwriter Randy Newman is calling out what he sees as racism in the presidential campaign.

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Five by 8

Alcohol and the college football fan (5×8 – 9/18/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2012, 7:42 AM Sep 18, 2012
6

The booze barrier at the U, the blame generation, let a thousand Jon Stewarts bloom, I can see your puny lineup from here, and the case of the purple violin.

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The cardboard challenge

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2012, 1:43 PM Sep 17, 2012
3

There’s a part two: Other kids who learned the joy of a few cardboard boxes and some imagination.

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The same-sex marriage debate made simple

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2012, 12:58 PM Sep 17, 2012
7

An online symposium on the issue of same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court.

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Fox and friends and comedians

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2012, 12:41 PM Sep 17, 2012
5

It doesn’t take much to get on Fox and Friends.

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How bad are things? People ready to go to work for company that fired them

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2012, 11:39 AM Sep 17, 2012
4

Forty-five percent of laid-off workers say they’d go back to work for the company that dumped them, a Temple University study says.

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Final salute

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2012, 10:56 AM Sep 17, 2012
2

Leaving South St. Paul’s Fleming Field yesterday afternoon, I couldn’t quite figure out why the Commemorative Air Force’s B-25 (‘Miss Mitchell’) was out of its hangar. It usually only comes out on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Then I saw this.

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Five by 8

The football religion (5×8 – 9/17/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2012, 7:14 AM Sep 17, 2012
10

Rearranging the football brain, remembering Antietam, the wild rice harvest, a concert at your home, and suicide secrecy.

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You Are Editor: What to do with ‘racist’ comments?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 14, 2012, 10:51 AM Sep 14, 2012
3

When should comments someone might see as racist find their way into the news?

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Gov. Romney explains

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 14, 2012, 10:43 AM Sep 14, 2012
2

Mitt Romney has sat down for his first interview to explain why he felt the U.S. reacted ‘inappropriately’ in issuing a statement in Egypt that criticized the makers of a film that has inflamed some in the Muslim world.

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Five by 8

When should the media keep quiet? (5×8 – 9/14/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 14, 2012, 7:35 AM Sep 14, 2012
12

Feeding trolls, if you only had a year to live, political hacking 101, the face in the face, and hockey’s woes explained.

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Twins play it safe in anti-bullying video

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 13, 2012, 3:10 PM Sep 13, 2012

The Twins avoid references to gays and lesbians in a video campaign on bullying.

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