Bob Collins
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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.
Much ado is being made today of a study purporting to show that the thrill of a hockey game may be bad for a guy’s heart. I say, is there a better way to go? Read more →
Jan Duffner pulled her front yard out because she’s allergic to grass. She planted wildflowers and a garden instead. A neighbor complained. Read more →
It’s the busy time of year for accountants, but Foster, who plays hockey in some ‘beer leagues’, he says, found time to play goalie last night for the Chicago Blackhawks. Read more →
Lorraine Guenther, 98, of Milwaukee, says she thought she had a deal with Minneapolis-based Thrivent Financial when a couple of insurance agents came to her Lutheran church when she was in her 60s.
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School shootings can move school administrators to act sometimes. But nothing gets their dander up like kids with a mind of their own.
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It’s going to be tougher this year for baseball fans to get closer to the players before games, a baseball tradition as old as spitting.
Safety netting is being extended at all ballparks this year to the end of the dugouts and in many parks — Target Field is one — all the way to the foul poles. Read more →
Professional baseball players tend to be conservatives who know how to keep quiet about things that might divide their fans.
Anthony Rizzo, star of the Chicago Cubs, doesn’t care about any of that. Read more →
‘The letters shake me up because they are written by regular, everyday teenage girls from across the nation,’ Nikolas Cruz’ lawyer said. ‘That scares me. It’s perverted.’ Read more →
Mark Conditt was portrayed by authorities as not motivated by hatred, but was upset about his life, so he sent package bombs to people, all of whom happened to be black. Did journalists go along with that depiction because they’re mostly white and Christian, too? The New York Times says ‘no.’ Read more →
Devonte Hart was just 12 years old when he was distraught over a grand jury’s 2014 decision not to indict a Ferguson, Mo., cop for the killing of Michael Brown. He was crying as he stood at a demonstration in Portland, Oregon with a “free hugs” sign when a police officer asked if he could Read more →
Toxic chemicals, bad social networking, good mutts, fallen debris from space, and opening day. Read more →
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When your team is playing a big game, you can’t let the fact you don’t know the person who owns the home you’re barging into to watch get in the way. Read more →