Bob Collins
As long as his team was playing well — which it has since his trade from the Minnesota Timberwolves — Kevin Love wasn’t likely to be dogged by the type of locker room rumors as he was with the Timberwolves. Those days are over. 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.
She was once a true love of Bob Dylan’s, or so the song goes. Echo Star Casey, rumored to be the Hibbing native Dylan wrote about, has died in California, the Duluth News Tribune says. She was in her late ’70s. Like Dylan, she was different from her classmates, the paper says. Helstrom and Dylan Read more →
From the ‘Department of I Don’t Hardly’, we note the Mankato Free Press article today that indicates there’s a market in that community for people to come to your house and clean while naked. Because of course there is.
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Some children were still unable to get home from St. Paul schools last night as late as 11 p.m. The school district blamed the forecasts, which accurately predicted the storm. Read more →
Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on Minnesota Public Radio News. Read more →
Those of us who don’t know the ins-and-outs of sled-dog racing take it for granted that the sport is just another idyllic Minnesota activity. Hook the dogs up… tell them to go… and the musher gets a free ride. We get lovely photographs.
Sometimes you get this photograph, which Blair Braverman, of Mountain, Wis., posted this afternoon to her Twitter feed. Read more →
It’s probably cold comfort to the people aboard all of those planes in blue that the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport is officially ‘open’ during the blizzard-like conditions this afternoon. Read more →
Our football fantasy was fun while it lasted but let’s get back to the number one job of a Minnesota winter. Drinking on the ice and downing a shot of minnows. Read more →
A recent Star Tribune essay criticizing local hip-hop favorite Lizzo for nudity in her Instagram feed has ignited a backlash in the Twin Cities music scene, and caused a stir inside the newspaper. Read more →
Housing officials in Eau Claire says more people are going to be sleeping in cars and on the streets now that the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has pulled funding from two agencies in the region that find housing for the homeless. Read more →
It’s been a long time since we’ve all had the kind of fun together that we had in the last week, despite football’s best effort to make us hate it. Read more →
Here are the topics and guests you’ll hear today on Minnesota Public Radio News. Read more →
We’re going to have plenty of these sorts of videos, we suspect. There’s nothing classy about Philadelphia sports fans and Vikings fans were warned it might be a bad idea to wear the purple at the Vikings-Eagles game. Read more →
You don’t typically see a campaign ad for a president one year into his term, but these are not normal times, particularly with a government shutdown underway and efforts by both parties to tag the other with responsibility for it. Read more →
Mass transit is as much about economic development as it is moving people. A developer has modified original plans for an office park at the 494/94 intersection and shifted to a mixed-use, transit friendly development, just the kind of thing that scared Lake Elmo but keeps Oakdale chugging along. And on Friday, the project cleared an important hurdle in its funding. Read more →