Bob Collins
Women are tired of this. They’re tired of all of it. And they’re not going to give a break to politicians or their party on the basis of ‘it could always be worse.’” 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.
The Rochester Post Bulletin has announced it will no longer issue a printed Friday edition. It will publish only five days a week. Read more →
Why do some kids excel in school and others don’t?
A big reason — by no means the only one, of course) is contained in the Pioneer Press’ story about the St. Paul Public Schools sending home report cards with the wrong grades. Read more →
Like their counterparts at CBS This Morning last week, the remaining hosts of NBC’s Today Show this morning tackled the firing of their co-host — in this case Matt Lauer — up front. Read more →
Here’s your daily list of subjects and guests on MPR News programming today. Read more →
This buck, a 10-pointer, was shot on Sunday in Lanesboro, Minn. For about a year now, the deer has been seen on trail cameras and people noticed the red tags but didn’t know what they said. Now they do. Read more →
Detroit has given its residents every reason to give up. Some people don’t give up. Read more →
Now this public service message, courtesy of the Sudbury (Mass.) Police Department: Don’t do this. Read more →
The thin blue line can be particularly tiny in small towns where the local constables know everybody and watch out for each other in a way that’s a little different than the big city. The potential for conflicts of interest is huge. Read more →
Not that we need a reminder that we could all be better fathers but we could all work harder at being like Bailey Sellers’ dad.
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Angela Lansbury, the beloved 93-year-old actress, is pinning the blame for sexual harassment and abuse on women.
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South Dakota has a brewing sexual harassment scandal between a lobbyist and an ex-lawmaker and this one sets a new standard for ugly. Read more →
The story of how Gilbert Mancheski finally agreed to hit the road in today’s Pioneer Press has its head-shaking moment for why his initial offer to sell out to the city fell apart. Read more →
Here’s a list of topics and guests for today’s MPR News programming. Read more →
James O’Keefe, the Project Veritas boss who’s made quite a name for himself by secretly filming meetings with media organizations, probably isn’t going to reveal what happened when he tried to trap the Washington Post’s reporters into offering their views of Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate who’s been embroiled in a controversy over alleged relationships with underage girls.
The Post didn’t bite on O’Keefe’s attempt to trap the journalists by sending a woman claiming she was impregnanted by Moore.
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