Bob Collins
Factoids from the fair.
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.
Who are the next heroes, writing a life’s story one peck at a time, welcome to Grand Forks, the things you learn playing football in Stillwater, and another BWCA video.
Tales from the open, err… closed, road
Making the best of bad, a gastro review at the Fair, us spying on us, is the era of cheap food over, and the joy of Wiffle Ball.
NASA today released this nifty ‘movie,’ stitching together the high-resolution images of the Curiosity landing on Mars and adding audio from controllers.
This is a great social experiment which shows just how unwilling people are to admit they don’t know something.
The Paralympics games begin in London in a few days. Minnesota has a fair number of athletes. Here are some of them.
While waiting for your images from the State Fair, we are occupying ourselves with a trip back in time, browsing the Minnesota Historical Society’s collection of State Fair photos. Machinery Hill in 1913… If some enterprising person set up a logrolling “ride” today, it’d be the talk of the Fair… Nothing says “contentment” like a Read more →
One woman’s story, the SE Minnesota flood stories we never heard until now, TV weatherpeople and climate change, maybe more schools should be like Como High School, and an eye on the world’s most famous crosswalk.
The State Fair: Let’s do this