Bob CollinsMPR’s Public Insight Network has posted a series of interviews with Muslim parents about how Ramadan changes when you have kids.
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.
How to taste coffee
As Minnesota stopped this week to observe the 150th anniversary of the Dakota Conflict, it’s not a bad time to ask what parallels may/may not exist in 2012?
Where’s the missing link for the new Highway 61 bridge over the Mississippi River in Hastings?
The obligatory Friday dog story
Cars v. people (cont’d), a good hurricane could end a bad drought, ugly poverty in beautiful pictures, when predictions of doom don’t come true, and Minnesota moments from the BWCA.
Listening to the political insiders on MPR’s Daily Circuit this morning insist that the national political conventions are not boring and really are important, got me thinking about the best convention speeches in history that were not made by the nominee.
Living with ‘why me,’ selling eggs to fly, is college worth it, Rushford’s flying lawn chair squadron, and reinventing the toilet.
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan…
A picture of the American Dream