Bob Collins
The hero of the movement to expand self defense didn’t need the law to protect him from prosecution. It had a grand jury to do that.
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.
Carless in Duluth
Defining the line of holding kids responsible, the ‘ice out’ debate in Minnesota, the hidden Vietnam, pipe down for the pine trees, and that’s not Olive Garden; that’s an octopus!
The race for the White House has now officially entered the fit-stump-speeches-into-an-Eminem-song stage.
We never were able to make much progress in uncovering the brains behind the Postcard Underground after Gary Eichten’s retirement in January, when anonymous (except for first name) postcards started showing up every day.
The Florida shooting examined, the picture of poverty, Duluth in a fog, the hockey team that must not be mentioned, and the lost art of locking the car.
Shakespeare and Pi
Politics the old-fashioned way, Doonesbury the Duluth way, is there a price for stifling free speech, desperate churches and young people who don’t go, and the battle of the barber pole.