Bob Collins
How do you like the suburbs now, city slickers? Our perfect lawns and could-be-anywhere gardens and landscaping are sucking a generous helping of carbon dioxide out of air.
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.
What if there’s no local news, the future of Car Talk considered, it’s not the heat it’s the fire, shock value in a Minneapolis killing, and what Nora Ephron misses and doesn’t miss.
Laughing Loon Farm was down and out after flooding and a hailstorm earlier this month. Now it’s just down. Nobody’s counting it out.
Dispatches from ‘Planet Parenthood,’ after the floods, NPR’s Muslim ‘extremist’ story, the dead trees of Northfield, and the right to swear in public.
There’s been a sudden upsurge lately in the number of fathers videotaping their children having meltdowns over life’s disappointments.
There’s been a mostly fun conversation over the last few weeks on the effect of the Duluth flood on Lake Superior water level. What’s the impact been so far?
The widening of the generation gap, how much kindness is too much kindness, is downtown Minneapolis safe, rosary or jewelry, and the end of the line for a great tortoise.
It’s likely some things are never going to be the way they were before this week’s flood in the Northland.
It’s entirely appropriate for any Minnesota Twins fan to pause for a moment to honor composer and lyricist Richard Adler.