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.
The boss of The Takeaway broke her silence today, answering allegations that she and members of WNYC, which owns the public radio program, did not respond to sexual and racial harassment allegations against former host John Hockenberry.
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Tyler Ketz won $6,000 playing the slots recently. His first child was also born. So Tyler was feeling good about life and wanted to spread it around a bit. Read more →
Willmar City Council member Ron Christianson didn’t show up at last night’s Council meeting where his constituents were to speak about Christianson’s social media commentary on Muslims in the community.
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Alas, we have reached another moment when Baby Boomers are told that their time is up. When the YMCA doesn’t want you anymore, it’s time to walk toward the sunset.
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The next time someone wants to know what it means to be Minnesotan, you may refer them to this tweet from the West St. Paul Police Department. Read more →
Here are the topics and guests scheduled today on MPR News programming. Read more →
Modist Brewing Company in Minneapolis got a cease-and-desist order in the sweetest way from a titan of the brewing industry.
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Bobby Carroll, a janitor at the University of Massachusetts Boston campus, is a symbol of America’s working stiffs.
He turns 63 on Christmas Day. He makes $51,000, which doesn’t go far in a city like Boston. If he can hang on for two years, he an retire with a nice pension and health insurance that will help him deal with his mental illness. Read more →
There is no part of American culture where you can escape the civil war of politics.
The latest example is what happened at a Minnesota Orchestra concert on Saturday night. Read more →
There might well have been a time when two employees of a radio station in Forest City, Iowa (just over the border from Albert Lea, Minn.) would’ve thought twice about saying what they said during a basketball game last Tuesday. Read more →
Like NPR before it, WNYC’s news staff didn’t pull punches in its coverage today, suggesting that John Hockenberry was given the option to leave The Takeaway quietly in exchange for keep all the reasons quiet.
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Millennials and veterans: What would it take to get you to move to Wisconsin? Read more →
Sawyer Stevens wants to use the money to go to medical school and become a pediatric neurosurgeon.
Because of his own experience on a bus one afternoon in Cottonwood, Minn., he someday might save some other kid’s life. Read more →
When the tax is up for debate every few years, supporters almost always invoke the family farm. Who would possibly be against the family farm and the poor widow who has to sell because she can’t pay a tax bill?
Who would have to sell the family farm? Almost nobody in the farm state of Iowa, the newspaper reports. Read more →
Here’s a list of topics and guests today on MPR News programming. Read more →
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