Bob CollinsA controversial workplace program gets a plug via NPR, over the objections of some listeners.
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.
A 7-year-old girl died after being restrained for gurgling milk. Few changes have been made in Wisconsin’s day treatment system for children to prevent it from happening again.
Baby, it’s cold inside
Why do airplanes crash?
A 16 year old girl in Japan signs a professional baseball contract. It’s been done before. In St. Paul.
Between the cyber sales and the Secretary of State putting pdf files of challenged ballots online in the the U.S. Senate race recount in Minnesota, how much work is actually getting done in Minnesota workplaces this week?
The man who revolutionized AM radio
The conjunction
The cure?
Governments use taxes to raise money and change behavior. But it can it do one without failing at the other?
You think you’re having a rough Monday? Outside of Boston, a backhoe operator went to work today thinking it would be just another day on the job, right up until the part where he demolished a house by accident. Says a local TV report: Residents of a home on Winthrop Street in Stoneham were lucky Read more →