Bob Collins
Dan Hartley, a Durand, Wis., native, went hunting around Janesville on Saturday, looking for a deer to shoot.
That’s when a deer found him. 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.
Today’s Quinnipiac Poll on public attitudes toward sexual harassment is fascinating because of the point where Republicans and Democrats depart a similar path. Read more →
It’s hard to believe a reporter would go to the bother of setting up a TV interview, and then not get any newsworthy answers to questions that her allegations have raised. Read more →
Teachers face a constant struggle to make their lessons relatable to their students. An engaged student is an educated student. It’s a form of the ‘by any means necessary’ method of education.
That’s why we have the Zombie Based Learning curriculum. Read more →
Here’s a list of topics and guests on MPR News programming today. Read more →
There aren’t a lot of athletes who spend their offseason calling attention to prosecutorial misconduct, but the WNBA — unlike almost every other major sports league — seems to encourage its athletes not to “stick to sports.”
The Minnesota Lynx’s Maya Moore shows up this week on Jerry Stackhouse’s online show for The Players Tribune.
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If the Derek Boogaard’s story wasn’t enough to make hockey fans think again about their glorification of hockey’s “enforcers”, it’s hard to imagine that Stephen Peat’s will be.
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Within the next day or so, millions of Americans will head to the airport. They’ll be in foul moods, anticipating flight delays, shoving against the humanity that dares get on board the plane 20 seconds before they do.
One piece of advice: Be more more like Canada, America. Also: Bring an accordion. Read more →
If there’s a kid you could pull for, it’s Garrett Grommesh of Moorhead, who was born with spina bifida and was just 10 years old in 2010 when the show Extreme Home Makeover showed up in Moorhead to build the family a new home near Concordia College. Read more →
These are sneakers. Unless they’re on your feet, they don’t do anything but sit there. They don’t make the coffee so it’s waiting for you when you get up. They won’t dust and vacuum. They won’t repair your broken marriage. They’re just sneakers. And kind of silly looking ones too. Read more →
Dish Network has dropped WCCO and all CBS stations from its broadcast lineup in a dispute over the amount of money the satellite TV service pays to CBS. Read more →
At the beginning of its broadcast this morning, CBS devoted 9 minutes of airtime to the story of Charlie Rose, who has now been suspended by the network. Read more →
As promised, the Facebook series from comedians Bill Murray and his brother, Brian-Doyle Murray’s dropped this week. They spent three months last season touring minor league ballparks.
There are worse ways to start the day.
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Here’s a list of topics and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News, 91.1 in the Twin Cities. Read more →
Broadcast journalist Charlie Rose is now caught in his past. Several women who worked for The Charlie Rose Show between the 1990s to 2011 have told the Washington Post he made unwanted sexual advances to them including ‘lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas.’ Read more →