Bob Collins
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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.
The great Twin Cities bicycle helmet debate of 2012 has had me poking around for alternatives to bike helmets. Today, I stumbled upon this. It’s a solution that isn’t a helmet at all.
End of the line for George Jones
Is there any remaining doubt that humans cannot do two things at once — specifically, driving and talking on the phone?
Should there be more restrictions on teen drivers, end of the golden era of food trucks, llamas 101, the paradox of the close call, some kids are smarter than others, and the great bike helmet debate of 2012.
Pesky dies a jock
The art of the impossible
Some Minnesotans might be chortling about a study out today showing Mississippi is the most obese state in the country, but our day will come, Minnesota. You had your chance to lower the obesity rate by 15 percent and — like every state in the union — you missed.
Joe DiMaggio was a righthanded hitter. What’s wrong with this stamp in the recently released Major League Baseball stars series released by the USPS
A year ago Friday, Arianna Tatum jumped to her death off the White Bear Ave bridge over I-94.