Bob CollinsMisrepresenting your status on a mortgage application can’t be used as a reason to walk away from debt.
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.
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When suffering is required, health care and the high court, a Vikings stadium smackdown, the war against schools, and are you cash free yet?
SUV v. tailpipe
The Trayvon Martin story — he’s the kid who got killed for no good reason in Florida — has reached the “I’ve got nothing left to write, so I’ll just write something stupid” phase that many national issues reach. The barometer for this is Geraldo Rivera, who blames the fact the kid was wearing a Read more →
Nerdy deeds done cheap, the power of a pink tutu, the butt sketch guy, cameras in the courtroom, and should the workplace be segregated?
An intangible benefit of writing the NewsCut blog and some other blogs I pen are the connections blogs can make between unrelated people.
If ever there was a presidential moment designed strictly for a campaign ad later in the year, this was it.
The value of the Internet, why drilling makes no difference on gas prices, the tax that quacks like a duck, Pomeranz exits, and why do four words from 50 years ago carry such meaning today?
As usual in the immediate aftermath of a plane crash, some of the initial facts and witness accounts don’t quite add up. That’s the case for the plane crash in Glencoe today that claimed three lives.
And that’s really the thinnest of threads NewsCut needs to bring back an old favorite — the time Joshua Bell played as a street musician in the Washington Metro.
Minnesota has a lot going for it, but it’s a barber shop backwater, at least when it comes to barber shops on wheels.