Bob Collins
If art is supposed to generate a reaction and generate discussion, Nick Rindo’s cropseed portrait of Bill Cosby is art. 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.
Jane Rosenberg had a better time sketching Tom Brady today, although he still looks guilty. Read more →
What’s it take for you to ‘get by’ month to month?
If you’re a typical two-adult, two-kids family in the Twin Cities, it’s probably about this. Read more →
The long-time pastor of a Minneapolis evangelical church is getting some examination in some religious circles after he said women shouldn’t be police officers. Read more →
The longest high school football losing streak — 39 games — ended Friday with a 24-to-14 win over Frazee, which probably is making for a pretty lousy Monday in Frazee. Read more →
A private firm that wants to build a high-speed rail link from the Twin Cities to Rochester (and on to Chicago) is considering using the country’s immigration laws to make it happen.
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Mary Solberg, of Crookston, knows she doesn’t have any legal rights when it comes to her former husband, Toby, with whom they picked out side-by-side crypts in Riverside Cemetery in town in 2010, years after they divorced in 2009. He died in 2013.
Her ex-husband’s family has removed his body from the cemetery and buried it in Erskine, near where his parents are buried. Read more →
It’s back to the cubicle wars. Monday, perhaps, is the day you wonder whether you should pursue that bucket list item instead.
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Are you noticing more Monarch butterflies compared to a year ago? Read more →
A pretty nice moment wrapped up a pretty awful week last night.
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The Christian Democrats of America pushed a press release today claiming that the Republican Party is losing its hold on the “faith vote.” It cited this article on the liberal Think Progress site earlier this month that said it’s getting harder for Republican Christians to justify awarding a vote to Republican candidates. But the loss Read more →
In South Milwaukee, Jordan Schroeder,16, would like to be playing for the South Milwaukee Rockets football team tonight when it hosts West Allis Hale. Read more →
The Associated Press reports today that the end of an era is at hand for the Goodyear blimp.
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Christopher Ingraham, the Washington Post reporter who was at the receiving end of Minnesota’s outrage after he presented data showing Red Lake County is the ugliest county in America, didn’t help relations when he doubled-down by criticizing our thin skins.
But yesterday he proved himself a stand-up reporter. Read more →