Bob Collins
The images arriving out of Tehran this afternoon are stunning.
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.
Supreme Court justices don’t give very many speeches. If they do, they often don’t allow them to be recorded. So it was a rare day yesterday when Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy addressed the graduating class at Stanford University. It takes awhile for him to get to get going, but he appears as we so Read more →
The truth about Roswell, exploring gay Iowa, let’s hear it for the boys, whatever happened to Daniel Hauser and more obsessing over the plight of graduating seniors.
Mainstream news organizations are reportedly being told to pack up and get out of Iran. New media, you’re on!
Iran 2009. Protests break out in an authoritarian state after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is declared winner by a landslide in his bid for re-election. It was 30 years ago…
The Mental Health America media awards were announced last night. The pieces that won are worth looking at. PBS won for Depression: Out of the Shadows, which was produced for WGBH in Boston and Twin Cities Public Television in Minnesota. Particularly compelling is the Faces of Depression section of the Web site. National Public Radio Read more →
Like many people, we’ve been watching the images coming out of Iran today where voters are selecting a president. The polls had to be ordered to stay open to accommodate the crush of voters. It’s the kind of factoid that can easily lead one to sigh and think, “If only we took elections that seriously.” Read more →
Among the day’s unanswerable questions — why can’t the Twins win on the road or when will the Minnesota Senate race end, for example — we add one more this afternoon: Why do we have fingerprints? Up until now, it’s been theorized that fingerprints exist to create friction when we grab things. Scientists today announced Read more →
I stumbled across this while doing some Google searches this morning. The governor is buying ads on Google to tout his Web site, which asks for political contributions, even though he’s already announced he’s not running again. Apparently they’ve been running for at least a week. Based on our own knowledge of Googleads, playing around Read more →
Singing is healthy, space is still cool, charter schools get creative, Colbert channels Bob Hope, and conservatives react to the Holocaust Museum shooting.
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