Bob CollinsNorth Dakota State University is becoming just the second NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision university to pay its athletes. 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 league has tried for years to get the domain, but the fellas won’t sell. Why? Partly because the twins — the Minnesota Twins — have never asked. Read more →
A few days ago, a colleague of mine tweeted that she couldn’t even use an ATM the other day without some guy stopping to critique her breasts.
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The Minneapolis Public School interim superintendent has apologized for optional materials used at a recent early literacy training program that reinforced some cultural and racial stereotypes.
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Every once in a while, we stumble across evidence that there really are signs of intelligent life on this planet. Read more →
We can add this new video from NASA to our video collection of things being smashed.
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Question: Why isn’t there always a crackdown on things that are against the law?
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For music fans, especially fans of the blues, it may be hard to believe that it was 25 years ago today that a Wisconsin helicopter crash killed Stevie Ray Vaughan. Read more →
If spectators are required to show a photo ID to attend a trial in Minnesota courts, does it violate a defendant’s right to a public trial?
Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled it doesn’t while warning judges to be careful with the practice. Read more →
Oh yes, my unmolded young minds of the West Des Moines School District, your teachers are much more fun than you know. Read more →
The poor folks at Thomson Reuters got ensnared in the reply-all loop today and it’s all Vince’s fault. Read more →
It isn’t really State Fair season until Brian Sorenson releases his State Fair Bingo cards.
That day came today.
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You get up in the morning, you go to work, you’re on the street doing your job , and then people are dead. Just like that.
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This picture of Marcy Borders, taken just after the south tower of the World Trade Center collapsed, was one of the more iconic images of September 11, 2001. Read more →
A sign at an American Legion in Rochester, Minn., is becoming must-see gawking.
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