Bob Collins
It’s a man’s recovery, shutdown: win or die trying, paddlers reach Fargo, and a look at Google+, and the human homerun.
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.
While many Americans might sleepwalk their way through the occasional playing of the National Anthem, there’s no mistaking the hearty singing of the anthem at a U.S. naturalization ceremony.
Connie Scott, of Owatonna, Minn., would like the nation to be as proud of her son’s sacrifice for his country as her family is. She knows it’s not, however.
Regulating Minnesota, outrage of the day, the future of Cirrus, Tsunami boosts dry casks, the dust that ate Phoenix and the Coon Lake water spout.
The winners and losers in the Minnesota government shutdown were on display in downtown Saint Paul today.
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty’s presidential campaign is out with a new commercial, scrapping the speeches and glitz of previous commecials and stressing Pawlenty’s role in Minnesota’s 2005 shutdown.
Lies, damn lies, and political statistics
Musical interpretations of the shutdown, when people do good, what’s it like to be fireworks, the death of the serial comma, and the Milky Way from South Dakota.
The Ox Lake parade
There’s a guy in the middle of this “flash mob” in a grocery store on Cape Cod this weekend who keeps shopping, even as a marching band breaks out around him.
How a state worker spends the shutdown, blind carpenter honored, the helmet law reconsidered, how to dishonor the flag, and we the purple.