Bob Collins
It’s not too late to stop the nation’s descent. It only takes the courage for someone to stand up to say ‘this is wrong.’ 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.
Mackenzie Berry might have also died in the crash that killed her father had it not been for her ‘angel.’ Read more →
Rod Carew is 70, a fact that’s a cold bucket of water in the face for baseball fans who idolized the Minnesota Twins and California Angels hitter, one of the best pure hitters in the history of baseball.
So perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us that his health is in peril, and yet it does. Read more →
Here’s the Saturday Night Live skit that we talked about on The Current’s Morning Show this morning. Read more →
A survey by a website that evaluates higher education choices has listed an area college on its list of colleges that aren’t worth the money. Read more →
There’s always that one home in many towns that’s the must-see Christmas lights house. The newfangled computer-controlled lighting displays are now match for a guy who started with one display and then got carried away in an ongoing effort to make some people happy. Read more →
The Washington Post says there’s gnashing of teeth at NPR because of a problem that’s been developing since it started on Feb. 26, 1970 — people are aging.
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What is happening to the state of hockey when a high school doesn’t have enough players to put a team on the ice?
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The police in Brussels didn’t find what they were looking for when they staged a series of raids looking for Salah Abdeslam, suspected to be one of the gunmen in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks. Read more →
The fact that a pizza shop owner was pulled from a flight at Midway Airport in Chicago because he was speaking Arabic, and that made another passenger nervous, isn’t even the most surprising thing about the incident this week. We’ve heard it before and it’s hardly surprising that we haven’t evolved.
It’s the utter lack of logical thought that goes with the utter lack of logical thought.
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In many ways, the debate surrounding a candidate’s proposal that we track Muslims is a debate that, perhaps, should have been held 20 years ago, before we became data and, more importantly, before we willingly became data. Read more →
It’s only November 20, but we have an early leader in the Ironic Weather Tweet competition for 2015-2016. Read more →
Cold medication, an overloaded plane, and faulty instruments caused Alexander Georg Obersteg, 47, of Steinfeld, Germany, to crash into Lake Superior off Brighton Beach in June 2014, the NTSB said. Read more →
In upstate New York, a Walmart worker who was paid $9 an hour to collect shopping carts in the parking lot, was fired because he picked up bottles and cans that people threw on the ground and turned them in to get the deposit back. Read more →