Bob CollinsWells Fargo isn’t giving in to evangelist Franklin Graham, who objects to this ad. 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.
Andre Pearson, 61, of Omaha, has been a patient at Mayo Clinic in Rochester since March. He has serious heart problems. But he made it to his daughter’s California wedding. Read more →
The Dallas Morning News reports today a 19-year-old African-American woman says racist comments at her party at the community pool started things rolling. Read more →
A good screaming match is great for ratings. If intellectual curiosity gets slaughtered in the process, so be it. Read more →
Trip Advisor, the online travel site, is pretty much worthless now for people who fly out of airports that serve as Delta hubs, such as Minneapolis St. Paul.
The airline no longer exists on the site. Read more →
We’re declaring this Ingeborg Rapoport Day, in honor of the 102-year-old German woman who today will get a doctorate from Hamburg University Medical Center.
She wrote her thesis on diptheria 80 years ago, but the Nazis would not allow her to defend it. Read more →
The irony isn’t lost on us that the beauty of sunrises and sunsets often depends on filth — pollution and smoke, mostly.
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Last week, the newest addition to the green space on the Minnesota Capitol grounds was completed when work on the Minnesota Military Family Tribute was finished. Read more →
Thanks to Apple, a Major League Baseball player is going to get the ball he hit for his 100th Major League homerun. Read more →
Drone owner John Thompson isn’t getting much sympathy since he posted this video on Facebook showing firefighters trying to shoot down his drone. Read more →
‘The Baseball Rule is ripe for change,’ Martin Healy, head of the Massachusetts Bar Association, said. ‘The immunity the baseball rule has provided to baseball has to be tossed out.’
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At least in Fergus Falls, pleading with a police officer who stopped you that you’re on your way to the hospital because your wife is in labor won’t work. Read more →
Long-time readers of NewsCut know we have a particular fondness for those who challenge themselves on long-distance endeavors. We have a new addition. Read more →
When people are needed to pitch in and save lives, why do some stand back and take pictures? Read more →