Bob Collins
Some of Hollywood’s biggest names performed a play on Saturday based on transcripts from the court case against Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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.
Why do disasters recalibrate us, redshirting kindergarteners, public radio comedy, the moral dimensions of art, and a sled dog protest against sulfide mining.
This is a scene being repeated all over the country today as people return to their destroyed homes to find pieces of their lives in the rubble from tornadoes. This morning, Marta Righthouse of Marysville, Indiana was one of the people pulling out what seems to be everyone’s first choice — the family photo albums. Read more →
The NFL says players were paid to injure opposition players, including the year the Saints beat the Vikings in the NFC championship game.
Chasing tornadoes
You wouldn’t think that music and politics and economics and our relationships are all related. They are.
Tales from the transplant list, Chick-fil-A and the questions that won’t go away, giving up on democracy, the 2-percent in the snow emergency, and what were you doing at 18.
The deal to build a stadium for the Minnesota Vikings has a provision in it that raises the possibility of an MLS soccer team being stationed at the dome in the next decade.
Maybe indoors is a good idea, based on this play yesterday when Maccabi Haifa took on Dynamo Kiev.
Exhibit on fat falls flat
Minnesota taxpayers to build Millennium Falcon