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.
I won’t keep you in suspense; I don’t know. But a news release from American Public Media today, coupled with the occasional remark from Garrison Keillor that he might retire will certainly lead to speculation that John Moe, pictured, might be the answer to a question that media observers have been asking for years: What’s Read more →
Amy Senser’s stepdaughter, who forced her stepdaughter to admit her role in the crash that killed Anousone Phanthavong, hit the morning talk show circuit today.
Foul territory in rural Minnesota, misleading presidential polls, prisoners of our own culture, battle of the naked Wisconsinites, and skipping stones in Sun Valley.
More than 5,000 fans attend the annual convention for fans of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Various controversies swirl around the London Olympics. The Chap Olympics, meanwhile, was held on just one day — last Saturday — and Britain finally won something.
There may not be a sadder story than the one today from Cottage Grove, where — the Star Tribune reports — a 29 year old woman set fire to herself, a month after being charged in last November’s death of her infant son.
Of all the ridiculous traditions in all of sports, throwing a homerun ball back because it was hit by the opposition is the worst
When a 100-year-old-woman loses her home, laid down and wiped away, the passion of Monday-Friday, hunters and their deer-stand mansions, and a light approach to suicide.
The big doings today are in Lakeville, which is holdings its annual Pan-O-Prog celebration. The event, a local told me, started as a celebration years ago of the opening of the city’s industrial park south of the main drag.
Clearly, the lone benefit of an oppressive heat wave is just before it ends, you get a chance to take some pictures of some amazing cloud formations.
The State Patrol/Department of Public Safety has posted details of the seizure of this car in Koochiching County this week.
Bob Collins
Flugtag moments