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.
The situation in Oslo today is, of course, horrendous. An apparent car bomb decimated the area around the government headquarters, and a gunman opened fire at a party youth camp where the prime minister was to make an appearance. Are they connected? We don’t know. In fact, while we know what is going on, we Read more →
Everything you think you know about kids today may be wrong, shuttle pictures worth oogling, the Red River wins in Moorhead, cigarettes and the Constitution, and landing a plane on a highway.
Ever pull into a city in a suburb and notice a shopping center with a Target at one end, a Home Depot at the other, a bunch of chain stores in the middle and forget what city you’re in? It could be Anywhere USA. That, my friends, is what people are trying to do with the English language.
The flag party, much ado about Twitter, flipped out in space, the curse of the NOAA radio, and a car race breaks out at the Tour de France.
Could the shutdown last into January, why are we so fat, where to draw the line on presidential letters, Field of Dreams 2, and there’s something about band directors.
Roseville native Paul Dye will have no challenge to his record as longest-service space shuttle flight director.
Bob Collins
A land without hope
The magic trick the economy can’t do