Bob Collins
It’s a fine line that businesses walk today when offering deals to veterans. 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 National Transportation Safety Board says the cause of a plane crash in Caledonia, Minn., that killed three men will remain a mystery.
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This is the first year since 1989 that high school football semifinal games have been played anywhere but the Metrodome in Minneapolis, and the Dome is having the last laugh. Read more →
Sacrifice is not shared in the United States. More than six of every 10 Americans couldn’t even be inconvenienced enough to vote last week, for instance. Read more →
Processing the death of radio icon Tom Magliozzi was easy for most of us. We got to remember the Car Talk laugh machine the way he was.
That’s not the case for his family, his son’s eulogy revealed.
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What would be a real pick-me-up for farmers? How about snow? That would prevent farmers from bringing in what remains of the harvest, pushing prices higher. Right?
Apparently not, the Associated Press reports today. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals today settled — for now — the ongoing role of school boards when it comes to campaigning for passage of levy referenda. Read more →
Take a long look at this picture of former Minnesota Viking Orlando Thomas. Read more →
The snowstorm couldn’t have come at a better time for KSTP in the aftermath of its ill-fated decision last Thursday to run a police-union-inspired story claiming Mayor Betsy Hodges was flashing gang signs with Navell Gordon, a young man with whom she was participating in a get-out-the-vote door-knocking effort.
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To remember the 39th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the National Weather Service in Marquette is tweeting the weather in “real time” today.
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The Washington Post is courageously tackling a word that it can’t even use in its article today — the ‘N word.’ The paper today rolled out a huge series examining the use of the word.
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A generation or two from now, some kid at a South St. Paul high school football game is going to ask, ‘Why is the team called the Packers?’ The last packers in the city have lost their jobs. Read more →
Here’s your daily dose of sweetness.
It happened at last night’s Garth Brooks concert at Target Center when a woman waved a sign that indicated she’d had chemotherapy yesterday morning. Read more →
Death is pretty serious business, but there are worse ways to depart this world than to have the people left recalling the times you made them laugh until things came out of your nose.
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This just in from the NewsCut “What Is Wrong With You?” department staff. In the St. Louis area this week a group of special needs students were on a life skills trip to the local mall. Things were going pretty well for the kids and their teachers. They were able to work their way down Read more →