Bob Collins
In the midst of light rail construction chaos, a street sweeper sweeps.
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.
Dyersville, Iowa, home of the Field of Dreams, is in the middle of a fierce debate over the future of the idyllic spot made famous by the Kevin Costner movie.
If the Minnesota Twins were a cologne, what would it smell like? Chances are, it would smell like something that couldn’t overpower the Yankees’ cologne.
We’ve reached the ‘let’s raise the speed limit of I35E in Saint Paul’ stage of this year legislative session at the state Capitol.
The censored Doonesbury comic on a Texas abortion law this week has reignited a debate on the role newspapers have in public discourse and issues.
Are we more insular as a species, the changing face of high school sports, Wisconsin’s voter ID law and the rights that can’t be taken away, there’s something about Marilyn, and what plants tell us about climate change.
A few people in Minnesota hockey circles were upset that Jack Jablonski was not allowed on the ice to share in the immediate aftermath of Benilde-St. Margaret’s victory in the state Class AA hockey championship.
Don’t kiss your pet
The anti-union effort reaches the Minnesota Legislature, Vikings stadium improv, the missing Doonesbury, health care reality check in Esko, and is there anything North Dakota doesn’t have going for it these days?
Jeff Ryan, a 23-year veteran history teacher at Prescott High School, has become one of the Lac du Flambeau band’s best friends.
Major League Baseball reconsiders its decision to ban a gun logo from a team’s throwback uniforms.
Rush Limbaugh’s ill-chosen word to describe a law student’s testimony about the need for contraceptive coverage by insurance companies has certainly sparked the creative side of his opponents.