Bob CollinsNo doubt it’s only coincidence, but a day after the Pioneer Press wrote a first-rate article on how the Hispanic culture has revitalized Worthington, MN., Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon today announced an initiative to help his hometown — in this case, Hazelton, PA. — better accept Hispanics.
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.
It’s the movies, stupid
Where are the Native American actors in Duluth, when leaders don’t lead, Monday morning Vikings blues, the faces of poverty, and maybe…
The amount of loaded adjectives and supposition in a story is in inverse proportion to the amount of facts and good journalism therein.
These videos serve another purpose: To remind us to call our aging parents this weekend.
It’s Constitution Day. Two-hundred-and-twenty-four years ago today, the Constitutional Convention met for the last time and finished the document which is the foundation of our laws. The delegates, we assume, had hoped that we would read it from the beginning to the end at least once. If you’ve never done so — or even if Read more →
The fire in the BWCA may burn for weeks. It will be long put out before there’s any agreement on how.
Pulling rail in St. Paul, the first step for a photographer, Tango time, what do we have against knowledge, and the bounty on the woman who talked to Rep. Bachmann.
Teaching religion the FBI way, the life of the hikers families, in Alzheimer’s and in health, the dollar coin, and your Minnesota moment of zen.
The beauty of disaster
How others treat the mentally ill