Bob Collins
St. Louis is the greatest baseball city in America. Anyone who’s ever watched a game there knows that. Read more →
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.
Pele, the volcano goddess, has not yet been satisfied with the offerings placed before the advancing lava in Hawaii. Read more →
Your ‘but I don’t feel like working’ timewaster of the day is finding everything wrong with this Twitter account. Read more →
First as a reporter, then as a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Corrections, Michelle Lyons’ job was to watch people being put to death. Read more →
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In the category of advertising icons, few can top Ray Szmanda, even if few people know his given name. Read more →
Anton Schloegl was trying to make a point when he fired his legal counsel and represented himself in his court case on charges of assaulting his fiancee during a 2016 car ride to Duluth.
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Attribution has saved area news organizations in the defamation case that Ryan Larson has brought against them after he was incorrectly and unfairly accused of being the man who killed Cold Spring police officer Thomas Decker in 2012. Read more →
There aren’t a lot of debates that have lasted longer than behavior at commencement exercises. It’s that time of year.
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Your daily dose of bittersweetness comes from KARE 11’s Boyd Huppert, who has covered the decision by farm families to cash out, thanks to low milk prices. Read more →
Bruno might be the most famous dog in Minnesota because every day he went for a walk, four miles into town to visit the folks there.
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James Fallows, the correspondent for The Atlantic, has always had a soft spot for Duluth. The plane that he flies around the country reporting on America’s overlooked communities, was built there.
So it’s not surprising that he gave the city of heaping helping of love in the CBS Sunday Morning segment that included a beermaker in Duluth. Read more →
Apparently there’s not been notice taken of the ‘Walk Her Inn, Drag Her Out’ tavern until the #MeToo movement, but some things don’t hold up over time and the 14-stool bar is the latest battleground. Read more →
Tony Giles has visited 125 countries on all seven continents so far. His goal is to visit every country in the world. Read more →