Bob CollinsWorcester Polytechnic Institute attorneys argue the victim engaged in risky behavior, including excessive drinking, on the night that a security guard at her university-leased apartment building lured her to the roof and attacked her. 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 Pioneer Press reports that Sgt. Bobby Lambert goes before the City Council tonight after the city’s police chief recommend he be fired for mistakes he made while investigating a drug-overdose death. What mistakes? Nobody will say, of course.
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No doubt some people will note that Bill Boegeman, a social studies teacher from Minneapolis, has a luxury few other people have — a summer off. That’s often how people dismiss the perspective that teachers occasionally provide to us about what it’s like to be a teacher. As if one negates the other. Read more →
There will be a ‘Night of the Gun’ mini-series, Sony pictures announced today. Read more →
Donald Trump today called on America to honor the fallen heroes of D-Day by posting a picture that wasn’t from D-Day. Read more →
Joseph T. Deters, the prosecutor in Cincinnati, today provided the details the Internet didn’t bother waiting for a week or so ago when a young boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at the zoo. Read more →
The court ruled in the case of Somsalao Thonesavanh, who jumped in the car of a Worthington man as he left it warming up in December 2014. Read more →
There’s an odd result when you try to find the mugshot for Brock Turner, the Stanford swimmer who got a slap on the wrist for raping a woman.
It’s impossible to find. Read more →
Ricky Rubio is threatening to leave the team if the Timberwolves don’t make the playoffs next season, according to ESPN.
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Seldom have we seen the sort of must-read series (and a spectacular online component) that the Star Tribune is providing this week, starting yesterday. The paper is looking at one of the least-covered scandals in Minnesota and the rest of the country: the lack of knowledge on the part of police when it comes to answering calls involving the mentally ill.
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My profound sense of sadness on news of his death mirrors the profound sense of sadness I had about his life: specifically, the treatment he received because opposed the war in Vietnam.
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Should people serve life sentences for dealing two kilograms of cocaine?
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He warmed up the crowd with the usual actor-turned-commencement-speaker stuff, and then took a flamethrower to the political and financial class. Read more →
It’s not that the bike shops are foisting this on parents; they’re trying to meet the demand of parents, the Boston Globe says. Read more →
Carol Mahr, 81, gave some money to a presidential candidate. She’s been paying for it ever since. Read more →