Bob CollinsWe’re conditioned to think of true love as love at the beginning. The Winona Daily News reminds us today that love at the end is a much better definition. 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.
It’s true, getting up and schlepping off to work on a Monday is no fun. But this video from the Alexandria Echo Press of coverage of the Butter Days Festival in Miller, Minn., contains another truism: it beats being a pig. Read more →
Near University and Snelling in St. Paul, a new kind of graffiti appeared after last week’s killing of a woman by a police officer who was reportedly startled by a loud noise. Read more →
Maura and Bobby Marko are the type of parents who can make you think you raised your kids wrong. Or maybe you didn’t make many concessions in your life when kids came along and maybe you didn’t listen to the people who told you that you couldn’t do things because you have kids now, and maybe you, too, did the things with your kids the Marko family does. Read more →
Mary Coleman-Hernandez,o was with her family at the Milwaukee Air and Water Show last weekend when she took her wedding ring off at a park to put sunscreen on her daughter. Then she got distracted by kids and airplanes, forgot about the ring and when the family packed up to move to a better spot to watch things, she shook the blanket off and away they went.
Goodbye, wedding ring.
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College sports is awash in money but most of it is lavished on men’s programs. The women? It’s the tin cup, at least for women’s hockey.
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Oh, you think you can hit a Minnesota high school girl’s fast-pitch softball delivery?
You probably can’t and if you do, it’s probably luck.
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At the Poor Farm Cemetery, Bob Riepe, of Perham, Minn., has thought about giving up on his one-man effort to keep up the cemetery near where the Otter Tail Poor Farm once stood. It operated from 1882 to 1936 and was abandoned until Riepe, an author, found a person he was doing research on was buried there somewhere. Read more →
In normal times, the United States can do worse than having Minnesota portrayed as the image of America. But these are not normal times, thanks to a cop who shot an innocent woman — an Aussie — in a Minneapolis alley on Saturday night.
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He made his name covering entertainment for the Pioneer Press for 53 years, changing the way pop culture was covered around here. He was the host of rock ‘n’ roll in Minnesota. Read more →
Apparently, Eden Prairie can be pretty boring for deer and turkeys to spend an afternoon doing deer and turkey things by themselves.
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A 60-mile scar — damage from hail caused by a storm on June 22 — highlights the intensity of a storm that stretched from South Dakota to Marshall, Minn. Read more →
Because sometimes, newspeople need to show you people having a good day, that’s why. Read more →
It happened three weeks ago, The Guardian says of its video, which it’s calling exclusive and is indicative of the worldwide attention her death at the hands of Minneapolis police on Saturday night has garnered. Read more →
Maybe Democrats aren’t as unhappy with the state of things as we’ve been led to believe because nearly half of them intend to sit out the next election, a new poll says. Read more →