Bob Collins
As of next Friday, the Lutheran Church will no longer be the official religion of Norway.
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.
At the Division III track-and-field championships over the weekend in Ohio, Meghan Vogel, a junior, was near the finish line when there was something more important that came up for her than finishing the race.
A lesson in constitutional ignorance, Claire’s graduation, don’t mess with Mr. Zero, Williston residents losing their city and homes to oil, and dealing with it.
You may have to strain to see the young man that is still probably inside these old men, who were honored today.
Testing the limits of artistic expressionWhen the news broke last week that the Flame computer virus was probably built by the same nation (or nations) that commissioned the worm that attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010, it was only a matter of time before everything led back to the usual unwitting accomplice in these things: Microsoft.
In the footsteps of Orville and Wilbur, who helped kill Derek Boogaard, Matt’s race, a celebration at Prairie Island, and Bloomberg’s Blue Earth bumble.
Over the years, some tremendously distinctive radio personalities have made a living in Twin Cities radio. Today, one of them died.
Britain, bless its heart, has a watchdog agency to prevent TV commercials from offending its people.
The recall election, the picture that still won’t let us turn away, the great bubble wrap debate, the stationary kayak, and the time machine in the back of a truck.