Bob Collins
Even though the Red River was beaten back in Moorhead in 2009 and 2011, the river has won.
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.
Ricky, we hardly knew ye
The Pike meme, hard times on Easy Street, the Runestone debate, the look on your face suggests you think this is odd, and Aerosmith on the Vikings
‘Lazy cop’ syndrome
Mailbag: The reading room
The link between climate change and bad weather, who’s more popular than Aaron Rodgers, the drinking water debate, a Social Security tale of one Minnesota county, and everyday should be National Unfriend Day.
The state gets a pile of cash for its tobacco settlement in exchange for two piles of cash later.
Cities ’97 Sampler sells out again
When advertising offends
The morality of Thanksgiving shopping, coverage of today’s Occupy march, PETA vs. Super Mario, the undersea world of a mine pit, and why turkeys can’t have sex.