Bob Collins
While I still read the occasional online ‘flame’ from some of my bike-riding friends about some assault on sensibility, I’m not hearing as much bike vs. driver debate as I did just a few years ago.
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.
The wide world of lying, nickel and diming the baseball fan, the view from space is nicer than the view from earth, a tornado report card, and what hell week looks like.
A couple of weeks after the team didn’t tell patrons that a tornado warning had been issued for Minneapolis, the Minnesota Twins announced today the National Weather Service has made Target Field a “StormReady supporter.” But far from a response to not telling patrons of the tornado warning, the Twins’ decision may reflect its value. Read more →
That was a heck of a blast against spelling bees from professor Anatoly Liberman at the University of Minnesota on MPR’s Midmorning today.
The world’s top incomes
Tornadoes expose the way people are forced to live, Moorhead’s extreme home tax bill, pinecones as the new currency, Palin’s history, and the bike kid.
Sen. Linda Scheid, a DFLer from Brooklyn Park, has entered hospice after an extended fight against cancer.
As a son of the Bay State, I always enjoy it when politicians hit the Freedom Trail in search of a photo opportunity to somehow relate the beginning of the American Revolution to their campaign.
Merging 101