Bob CollinsIt will revamp its programming at the end of the month, City Pages reports, and end one of the quirks that’s made it distinctive in the time block: the ‘different radio station every hour’ format in the mornings using a rotating collection of hosts. 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.
“I love her. She’s my mom. She’s still my mom. She’s in there somewhere,”
the bride tells KARE. Read more →
If you’ve got family and friends from out of town, perhaps you, too, have fielded an unusual number of calls this week that start with the same question, ‘What’s the deal with Minnesota/Minneapolis cops?’
It should be a clue that, at least in the eyes of the rest of the world, something isn’t quite right here. Read more →
In his early years in the U.S. Senate, Al Franken tended to avoid comedy. When his book came out this year, Franken dared to be funny again, discovering that comedy is great storytelling and great storytelling is part of the art of politics. Read more →
The city of Belle Plaine tried just about everything it could short of understanding every U.S. Supreme Court ruling on religious displays in the country’s history, but on Tuesday it threw in the towel and banned privately-owned displays in a city park. Read more →
The Brainerd High School adviser who allowed anti-Trump messages into this year’s yearbook has now been suspended, according to the Brainerd Dispatch.
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Students in Bemidji, Minn., owe the school system about $15,000 for school breakfasts and lunches, but unlike many other school districts around the nation, it won’t be using the scarlet letter approach to try to get them to pay up. Read more →
When NYPD officer Miosotis Familia was assassinated on July 5, her friends in the department were ready to cancel the outing to Boston’s Fenway Park that she and the others in the 46th Precinct had planned to watch the Yankees play the Red Sox. After all, her funeral was just last week. Read more →
Ken Brown, of Champlin, was running out of time for a dying wish last spring when the University of Minnesota provided a special commencement ceremony so he could see his son, Collin, get his diploma.
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This is Storm. Storm is a good dog, or, as his owner, Mark Freeley, says, ‘the world’s best dog.’ No pressure, Storm. Read more →
The NRA’s Grant Stinchfield, a conservative talk show host, said the Washington Post does ‘more damage to our country with a keyboard than every NRA member combined has ever done with a firearm.’
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The latest victim is Austin Reeves, 26, of Hingham, Mass., who told his parents he just needed to be left alone in his room, where he was fretting over a breakup a week ago Saturday. His dog was with him. So was his gun. Read more →
The Trinidad Triggers play in the Pecos League, where players get about $50 a week to chase a dream that will elude almost of them. Oh, it’s not all baseball romance by a lot shot.
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Last week, many of NPR’s most well-known names pulled the curtain on life at the public radio institution, revealing poor morale among newspeople.
With the new deal, however, silence about what’s in it is the order of the day. Read more →
In 2012, Greg Thomas, of Montgomery, Minn., got plenty of national attention because he started fixing up a decayed country church while undergoing treatment for cancer. Read more →