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.
Back in the day when ethical leadership and management was a corporate goal, Tom Peters ‘In Search of Excellence’ was the management bible, documenting several companies’ approach that companies who value profits by valuing people could emulate.
One of those companies was IBM. How times have changed! Read more →
If we can’t talk about the weather anymore, what future is there for human communication at all? Read more →
Joanne and Tomas Lopez, of Frogtown, provide the perfect example of why we bristle at the dour expressions and tone of media folks when they talk about snow in Minnesota. Read more →
Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Frontier Airlines seemed willing to allow Rubin Swift and his newborn daughter, Ru-Andria, to walk the streets after the airline denied his boarding their flight from Phoenix to Cleveland. The airline doesn’t allow anyone under 7 days old to fly, even though the hospital had given its blessing. Read more →
Sometimes it feels as though rational people are vastly outnumbered. The police department of Sheboygan, Wis., provides today’s evidence. Read more →
The Court’s description of the case reads like a cheap novel you can’t put down. It — and the dealer’s Yelp reviews — will also make you never want to buy a used vehicle again.
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No doubt, you’ve heard by now that the last living male white rhino has died and that’s that. This beautiful and haunting image from National Geographic, however, also shows another vanishing species. Joseph Wachira is the last human who will ever walk the planet to hear the breath of a male white rhino and touch Read more →
At the rate of Minnesota’s progress, the sun will burn out before its citizens get to see what happens in the state’s courts. Read more →
When it comes to the arts, life imitates. Read more →
Solway, Minn., just west of Bemidji, has a population of 95 people and two apparent angels, judging by the story today in the Bemidji Pioneer about Kent and Shantel Dudley, who have adopted children no one else would. Read more →
Since the 1960s, studies have asked children to draw pictures of scientists and since the 1960s, the pictures have depicted a man. Of the 5,000 drawings submitted then, 4,972 showed a man. Read more →
Here are the guests and topics you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
This would have been Mr. Rogers’ 90th birthday if he hadn’t died and left us all to fend for ourselves. Read more →
Since this is a day to honor 100-year-old women, we’ll waive the 100-year-old requirement to take note of Betty Trimberger Smith, who died last Wednesday, hours short of her 100th birthday, the Milwaukee Journal’s Jim Stingl writes today. Read more →
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