Bob CollinsXiang Yuncui, 57, carries her granddaughter, Tan, to school every day.
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.
Clowns at the Capitol
It was a touching moment in Washington today when a group of Minnesota schoolkids was about to board a flight home after a trip to the East Coast.
Do women care more than men, 45 minutes of Helen, death of the cookie, politics and the Minnesota wolf, and a heaping helping of Minnesota.
Google’s new reality
A constitutional food fight
Does it matter if college basketball players don’t go to class, money for nothing in Moorhead, the carry-on fee cometh, remembering a flood fighter, and today’s Norway moment.
The story of the woman who landed a plane in Wisconsin after he husband died sounds a little more dramatic if you ignore the fact the woman clearly knew what she was doing.
The weapon of rape 20 years later
We’re a people who want to be connected to the people who came before. The fact that the 1940 Census website crashed yesterday under the crush of 37 million requests shows that we’re looking for something. But what?