Bob CollinsIs the term ‘illegal immigrants’ hate speech?
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.
Bridge flotilla update
Baseball economics 101, science fiction meets science reality, the death of the ash tree, no outcry over $4 gasoline, and is it too soon for Christmas decorations?
The efforts have been noble, but the fact is the emerald ash borer is expanding its territory.
Kennedy honorees announced
Chances are, most of us couldn’t name Chris Stevens as the ambassador to Libya before he was killed overnight.
When ‘art’ lights a fuse, should reporters stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, gay or nay in Wahpeton, time to ground flying history, and the civic stories of Northfield.
Five people, living together in a bus, are traveling the country for a year in search of people doing good things.
When is it time to move on, helping with horsepower in South Dakota, the gatherings between the whites and Dakota, why I secretly recorded my life, and even more BWCA videos.
For a short time today — too short to get a decent picture — the sky over Minnesota was wearing a pinstripe suit, thanks to the weather conditions that made obvious what is true all the time — there’s a highway over us.