Bob Collins
What caused an airliner to land gear-up last month? A $30 part.
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.
The ordeal of Gulnaz
The tragedy that happens every 36 hours, rediscovering a son, making friends in Minnesota, leaving vacation time on the table, and changing University Avenue.
Zygi’s new pad
Life in a shipping container
How to speak Minnesotan
You can’t cash gratitude, the last Vietnam soldier in North Dakota, stealing stuff for Christmas, privacy and the secrets you tell the government, and an interview with Temple Grandin.
Spend a few hours with Marnita Schroedl, and you’ll start thinking that if we could get 5 million people into her Minneapolis home, the state wouldn’t have a problem left to solve
Readjusting to an academic life, a response to the Strib’s Target editorial, why is recycling so hard, the afternoon Aurora, and the knock-off Stradivarius.