Bob Collins
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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.
Ann Raiho and Natalie Warren have become the first women to paddle from the Twin Cities to Hudson Bay.
The $120-a-word speech
A phony video purporting to show Rep. Michele Bachmann asking an Iowa crowd, ‘who likes white people?’ has been pulled from YouTube.
Busting the birdman, tapped-out FEMA, should daycare providers be required to join a union, blues for Honeyboy, and 500 people in 100 seconds.
A comment in the earlier post about Joe Mauer moved me to pull out a spreadsheet I haven’t touched since 2003 today.
Joe Mauer is, by all accounts a nice guy. Would you rather have a jerk on the Twins if it increases the chance of winning?
A Wausau union council has banned Republicans from marching in this year’s Labor Day parade.
Why the storm wasn’t overhyped, dogs and the mentally ill, the secret life of metal-detector hunters, the way we learn, and what the end of summer looks like.
Driving across Indiana has always been the most boring part of our drives to and from the East Coast. But not today. Every few minutes, from the Ohio line to South Bend, convoys of utility trucks and tree crews — two people to a truck — were heading toward hurricane country. The various news agencies Read more →
Although a lot of kids are leaving for college this weekend, we still have another couple of weeks of summer left to go. We stopped at the Truro “transfer station” on Cape Cod the other day while leaving the ocean for the mountains and I captured this magnificent statement on what the end of summer Read more →
PR battle for the face of a strike