The amazing diversity of news on a given day, eh? State shutdown threats, water coolers that make a city stop, teachers who steal lunch money from autistic students, and the people for whom we’d drink poison. It’s on today’s news conversation with The Current’s Mary Lucia.
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.
Bob Collins