Bob Collins
The family reunion is not a dead concept.
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.
From Itasca to New Orleans, the dream of infinite flight, where was God in Aurora, was chivalry ever alive, and the wireless generation.
One piece at a time
Solution by technicality
Good people have come and good people have gone but there’s one person — and only one person — who’s been a part of MPR.org since the day he started.
There isn’t a good parent in the world who doesn’t understand the pain of Tom Sullivan, center, who is shown in this AP photo embraces family members outside Gateway High School in Aurora.
Did life imitate art, Franken and Davis minus Davis, reporters in campaign ads, remembering the Hjemkomst voyage, and the Airstream mentality.
Anyone who’s ever watched politicians get questions they didn’t have answers for had to know that Gov. Mark Dayton was heading for the rocks almost immediately after he got a question on MPR’s Daily Circuit the other day about a subject that has little to do with politics or policy.
An iceberg the size of Minneapolis?
Does having it all require money, the Olympic mom, the sons of the Kent State generation at Penn State, when the water recedes in Duluth, and another look at the Boy Scout decision.
You may have seen the story that the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled against the families of people killed when their Cirrus plane crashed. I won’t jump into the analysis of the incident in question, because I already had when the Appeals Court ruled in the case. You can find it here. There’s discussion in the Read more →