Bob Collins
The best and worst of Olympic TV ads.
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.
A sad sign of the times: The Houston office of homeland security has distributed a video on how to survive a mass shooting…
Lessons from the LED bulb, waiting on Mars, aiming low for happiness, return of the photo booth, and the shelf cloud.
Who’s the more impressive Olympian: the one who won a gold but is too fragile to be distracted by life, or the one who faces the realities of life head-on and competes anyway?
Sewing for soldiers, a new direction in treating mental illness, tax-free gold for Olympians, the bad grammar debate, and the happiness experiment.
Is there economic diversity where we live? A new study questions why economic segregation is increasing.
Like the lighthouse keepers before them, eventually the last bridge requiring a human to operate it will likely disappear.
The bearers of bad news, the death of intellect, people doing good, politics religion and business, and now this message from winter.
Chicken rights