Bob Collins
Does the red M&M encourage kids to be bullies?
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for August 2011
One question: If the stock market is so all-fire important to everyone, how come news organizations can only figure out one kind of photograph when covering it?
The downgrade debacle, dragon boats, the 78-square-foot apartment, the food truck controversy in St. Paul, and cigarettes and the first 30 minutes of your day.
NPR got itself in the middle of the storm when it focused on Marcus Bachmann’s gay conversion therapy clinic last Monday, the network’s ombudsman says today.
Skydiving for hunger
If you only paid attention to the news reports of Minnesota Timberwolves player Michael Beasley’s run-in with a fan during an exhibition game, you’d think he’d drowned a bagful of kittens.
I’m not really here and you’re not really reading this, welcome the coming winter, a little zip in Duluth, a moose head in Ellendale, and to be 12 again.
Lucia, Collins, and chihuahua paws
The view from the ledge
It’s a good life when the worst that can happen is Caribou Coffee runs out of cards for its summer sticker promotion that gives people a free cup of joe every so often.