Bob CollinsA homeless 17-year-old with leukemia has died.
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.
Guess the airline
So far, the only area of the military that seems to be affected by the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is the homecoming.
You Are Editor: The tanker fire
The CBC reports that police had to be called to a rink in New Brunswick because a 13-year old referee through out a coach and a hockey mom for repeated verbal abuse of his allegedly missing calls during a game between teams of 11-year-olds.
Sningo, the price young students pay, would it kill you to help, the golden age of stupid, and optimism and the baseball fan.
NewsCut’s Bob Collins joins a panel with former Ventura chief spokesman John Wodele and singer/talk show host Jearlyn Steele of WCCO. The main topic was a self-defense gun bill heading for the desk of Gov. Mark Dayton.
What’s your passion?
Our dogs ourselves
The stigma of the factory, are things looking up, an apology for racist hockey chants, the things that keep hockey parents up at night, and does your name make people dislike you?
Who weeps for the Hummer owner?
Assignment: Send me your photos of the junk you find on the side of the road, on the ice, or in the wild.
In advance of Sunday’s Oscars broadcast, the Easter Seals Society is criticizing Hollywood for not showing ‘characters with disabilities’ more often.