Bob Collins
When’s the last time you used a pencil? When’s the last time you used a keyboard?
What’s the problem, again? 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.
Keep this in mind, Minnesota. Your flood season is coming. Read more →
The gold-medal-winning U.S. curling team got a little lesson in the dangers of Twitter before heading back to Minnesota and a heroes’ welcome in Duluth.
It was all good for the fellas, tweeting to Delta to see if a gold medal could get a guy an upgrade. Read more →
Jordan Bohannon, Iowa’s sophomore guard, went to the free-throw line with a chance to erase Chris Street’s name from the team record books. All he had to do was make a free throw. No big deal; he’d already made 34 in a row. Thirty-five would’ve given him the new record. He didn’t want the new record. Read more →
In about a month, this is going to be the most popular team in the state of hockey, which is saying something considering that’s nearly the time when the NHL playoffs. Read more →
Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
In a ‘it’s every person for himself’ era, looking out for each other is still a pretty grand attitude, as an act in Minneapolis on Friday proves. Read more →
That tender Comcast tribute to Jesse Diggins hometown of Afton appears to actually be Stillwater. Read more →
How do you know someone at the Olympics is doping.
They wear T-shirts that say ‘I Don’t Do Doping.’
Also, they’re Russian athletes. Read more →
A Quad Cities woman has become the first to wear a hijab while reporting full-time for a mainstream American TV station. Read more →
The Brainerd Dispatch reports that mostly boys — big shock — are mimicking ‘obscene and disturbing behavior’ in the video series. Symptoms apparent include Jeffy’s signature moves of fondling his crotch and humping a box of Cheerios.
Read more →
The last thing teachers and students need right now is some guy walking into buildings, past the administration area where he’s supposed to sign in, into his kid’s classroom and handing the teacher a cardboard gun. Read more →
A review of how two news executives sexually harassed their way through NPR this week results in the execs getting a full vote of confidence. Read more →
Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
School districts are caught in the middle in an upcoming national protest against school shootings. And they do not agree on how it should be handled. Read more →