Bob Collins
An aerial view of flash flooding in the the Northfield-Cannon Falls area.
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.
Following flooding, why don’t people follow the news, a Guardsman says goodbye, would painting blacktop white make a difference, and a walk over Niagra Falls.
The newspaper canary dies, the comeback of the street in Minneapolis, revisiting bike-to-work day, a sense of place in the Twin Cities, and Minnesota Nice.
The ‘what’s the deal with that?’ season is officially underway in Minnesota politics, with the release today of a short film for Senate candidate Kurt Bills.
As with most disasters that have a pretty edge to them, the closer you get, the less pretty it becomes.
The Muslims are coming, Fight Night in Crude County, the curse of the ’67 Twins, the ‘zero’ debate renewed, and the mass nouns of sport.
Anoka County’s action today exposes the reality dependency on mass transit project funding: You can’t always trust your partners.
Since I wrote last week about the first test flight (flown by a test pilot) of an airplane I built, people have been asking, ‘when are YOU going to fly it?’
The farm orchestration
The right to say ‘no,’ happy people and happy mornings, do we create our own luck, getting emotionally involved as journalists, and tearing down this wall.