Bob Collins
Twins fans are understandably anxious to see if the team can make history. It already has.
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.
Preparing for pain, the water always wins, the influence in your inbox, why you should move over on the highway, and the mystery of the Nazi photo album.
I’m out storm chasing the system that spawned tornado warnings along Highway 52. As Paul Huttner was on the air saying the system was probably cold-weather, funnel clouds, I sat along the highway south of Inver Grove Heights and watched the system head to the northwest, then turn slightly and head over West St. Paul. Read more →
Lost in all the coverage of fires in Arizona, the tornadoes of Missouri and Minnesota and a government shutdown in the state is this item: A good share of Minot, North Dakota is about to be washed away.
Man robs bank to get health care, taking the people’s temperature on the state shutdown, community and the Wisconsin supper club, if art imitated life, and a 360-degree view of the hockey riots.
It’s true. In the middle of June, a point guard from Europe whose statistics aren’t that good got more attention than a local baseball team that may be in the middle of one of the greatest comebacks in the history of baseball.
Here’s the official Walker Art Center time-lapse video of Saturday’s Rock the Garden concert, also sponsored by The Current.
The Chicago Cubs today became the second Major League Baseball team to endorse the “It Gets Better” campaign aimed at lesbian, gay, bi, trans and other bullied teens. The Cubs join the San Francisco Giants on the record.
The most impressive part of Saturday’s ‘glitter attack’ on Michele Bachmann was how synchronized the security detail was.
For the kids, the criminalization of domestic violence, how others see us, revenge of the Sunday pundit, and dog v. dog in Wadena County.
Life after the ‘mancession’