Bob CollinsWhen you read the first two paragraphs in today’s Star Tribune story about the way Minnesota treated mentally ill patients in St. Peter, you may have to struggle to remember that this is the 21st century.
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.
Your a kettle-ringer with one of those little tinny bells, trying to raise a few bucks when all of a sudden the big guns show up.
If you were younger and more likely to take the risks, what sort of things would you do?
The reasons behind the vote, youth sports and the parents who ruin them, when soldiers come home, is America’s religious freedom under threat, and the Eichten countdown.
The best thing that ever happened to politicians may well be the ability to cite data practices law in Minnesota as the reason for their silence on controversial issues. Fewer laws, however well intended, have cast as much secrecy over the workings of government.
The Mankato TV station anchor whose “slurred speech” during a newscast made her a YouTube hit has been arrested for drunk driving.
The bike box
In advertising, Detroit sells
The lure of the walleye, the danger on the ice
What did they know and when did they know it, how to handle a crisis, comedians on a plane, the price of free speech, and bring it, Grinch!
A first first kiss
Where’s the snow?