Bob Collins
Searchers still haven’t found any sign of AirAsia Flight 8501, which disappeared Saturday while on its way from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore.
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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.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is a pretty brilliant guy, so he must’ve known what he was doing when he posted this tweet on Christmas Read more →
Before we get to a week of endless lists and reviews of 2014, let’s pause for one more Christmas moment before we move along. Read more →
Bloomington’s city attorney is promising to scour the Facebook pages of organizers of last weekend’s Black Lives Matter protest at the Mall of America and use what she finds — if she finds anything — to prosecute them for the illegal protest.
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A deranged man’s assasination of two New York City police officers has derailed the nationwide protests against the killings of unarmed blacks, at least if you believe the New York Times.
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A shopping mall in Russia has had it with the U.S.-led sanctions against the country in the wake of Russia’s incursion into Ukraine.
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2014 was a tough year for Audra Daniloff, 17. The Saukville, Wisc., teen spent much of it at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin fighting Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis, which stimulates the immune system to attack the body. Read more →
For all the doing-good stories that populate the news at this time of the year, it’s a shame someone couldn’t have stepped forward to help bring Olson’s son home. Read more →
The kids are all grown at Casa NewsCut and they’re not around today, so I’m sitting here reminiscing about Christmas mornings past and, for the record, not feeling guilty at all about the big lie.
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This is the time of the year when a few long-held beliefs of childhood get exposed (wink wink) and now today comes another: the pilot of your delayed flight really can’t make up time in the air to offset the delay on the ground. Read more →
In the category of ‘Some Things Never Get Old,’ we nominate ‘people who tie balloons to a chair (or house) and go for a ride.’ Read more →
St. Cloud’s only airline is flying half-full airplanes while cashing subsidy checks. But it’s still losing money and the end — if history is any guide — is near. Read more →
There was another police shooting last night that left a young man dead. But this time there’s video. Read more →
And now this message from a spot where borders aren’t obvious. Read more →
We almost made it all the way through Christmas without a controversy over a Christmas display. Read more →