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 nice story about the reaction of people who pitched in to help a guy who has walked 21 miles for work in Detroit every day can’t just be a nice story about people pitching in to help a guy who has walked 21 miles for work in Detroit every day.
There’s a subtle belittling of the effort by those who favor better transportation options for people, as if people can’t stop a wound from bleeding and try to stop the war, too. Read more →
NBC News anchor Brian Williams is in damage control mode after he was outed for falsely claiming to have been in a helicopter that was shot down in the first Gulf War. Read more →
When it comes to getting its kids vaccinated, Minnesota isn’t much to write home about. Read more →
James Robertson, the Detroit man whose story of walking 21 miles a day for work and never missing a day of toil in the last 10 years prompted thousands of people to pitch in to give him a hand, has released a video via the Detroit Free Press with a pretty simple message. Read more →
I admit I’m trolling you here. I apologize in advance. Read more →
We all had a good chuckle in the last 24 hours about the McDonald’s in Beaver Dam, Wis., that kicked a woman out for bringing a kangaroo into the restaurant. It’s just Wisconsin being Wisconsin and all. Maybe there’s more to the story. Read more →
But most of us never had to face what many high school rivalries in greater Minnesota have to face — becoming one with the hated rival.
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Jack rabbits appear to be breeding like jack rabbits and they’ve taken over a south Fargo neighborhood. Read more →
A Minnesota State University Mankato student shot himself to death in the university library Monday afternoon. He was a philosophy major. He was also a veteran of the war in Iraq. For the most part, the news was met with a shrug. Read more →
We don’t often get to see what a plane crash looks like. This is what it looks like. Read more →
Take a carpenter, and a writer, and an electrician, and a plumber, and a professor, and a doctor, and engineers, and several dozens others like them and put them together and what do you have? A symphony orchestra. Read more →
Roger Hanson was well along in his city-subsidized effort to build an ice tower in Superior today. Things were looking good and tourists were stopping to take a look, just as the city had hoped. Read more →
When Sen. Thom Tillis was in the last minutes of his appearance at the Bipartisan Policy Center yesterday, whatever self-preservation instinct he has failed him from trying out an analogy to explain why businesses are over regulated. Read more →
It’s hard for anyone who has flown an airplane to understand the jaw-dropping foolishness documented in a National Transportation Safety Board report that blames a Colorado plane crash on a pilot taking selfies, according to the Denver Post. Read more →
James Robertson, 56, works at a factory in Rochester Hills, Michigan. He takes a bus part of the way from Detroit and then commutes daily by foot.
Twenty-one miles.
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