Bob Collins
NPR’s David Welna returns to Minnesota to assess where he’s been.
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.
When the NFL plays hardball, why women settle for the money, caregivers and the Capitol, the death of the Mustang, and how to know what color to wear today.
‘All his friends were there,’ his guitarist, Larry Campbell said, ‘and it seemed like Levon was waiting for them.’
For two minutes once a year, there are more important things than getting to where you’re going.
If you write a blog long enough, eventually you find yourself writing the same thing again and again.
A story after death, the great flood of ’97, the end of St. Paul department stores, why there was no Pulitzer for fiction, and a Coney Island love letter.
The hooliganism of hockey
The biological markers of depression, Alzheimer’s aware, the ‘lottery curse,’ big hearts in Hawley, and more on Levon Helm.
Levon Helm in final stages of cancer
Behind the best small town
Like an aging employee no longer of much use, the government gave the space shuttle Discovery a gold watch and party today, a fly around the nation’s capital before wheeling it into a retirement home.