Bob Collins
An anonymous woman’s kindness at the fair, revisiting the Republican convention in St. Paul, Pawlenty’s sparks, iconic roles of the World Trade Center towers, and microfinance missiles.
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.
A breakthrough in news intimacy
What’s uniquely Minnesotan that would resonate with people in the rest of the country when viewed from the air?
Bobi Ombui of St. Paul sent us this picture of the Skyride at dusk at the State Fair. It is a fine — and somewhat sad — metaphor.
The scared society, the cost of ‘safety’, Duluth rallies for blinded high schooler, naming names in the paper, and people doing good.
Some of us are still shocked enough by the recent announcement that MPR News’ legend Gary Eichten is retiring at the end of the year, that we’re not quite prepared for the series of lasts that are about to follow.
Glittering the Fair
In NewsCut’s continuing quest to sample the diversity of weekend entertainment in Minnesota, we give you the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion Parade, held yesterday in Rollag.
Champs x 2
‘Bombing’ South St. Paul
Is our love of hockey enforcers killing them?