Bob Collins
Life imitates art in the hippo community.
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.
People who matter, Westover v. Quimby, for the love of a cougar woman, a fight at the beach, the economy in song, and the worst umpire call this season.
The Congress you have tried to reach…
2014, when light-rail makes its debut in Saint Paul, is still a long way away, but at least there was a whiff of the end of the disruption its construction has caused in the city’s Lowertown neighborhood
The Washington Post is reporting this afternoon that presidential candidate Michele Bachmann benefited from a federally-back home loan program she’s railed against on the campaign trail.
Math and the baseball outfielder
A dog shall save them, find yourself at the U2 concert, the never-ending Red River flood, what the Winehouse reaction says about us, and this is your brain on football.
The Minneapolis-based architect had a hand in some of the state and the county’s most iconic buildings.
Long-term unemployment in Minnesota
Norway searches for a punishment to fit the crime
A manifesto manifesto, U2 in the rain, a more perfect Union in St. Paul, Cuddyer in focus, and the land of 10,000 Santas.