Bob Collins
From the Department of Are You Serious comes this from KSTP, which alleges that Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges knows a gang sign.
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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.
This could have gone very badly for this flight trying to land at O’Hare in windy conditions yesterday. Read more →
In a perfect world, love alone would cure cancer. Read more →
1,000 Words: The ‘I voted’ sticker
Depending on the reliability of witnesses, there were one or two fireballs reported over Minnesota and Wisconsin at about the same time last night. Read more →
How can you not like the miscreant(s) who ‘defaced’ the entrance to the Acme Foundry on Hiawatha Ave? Read more →
The roll of an exit poll is not to provide data upon which weighty decisions are made. The roll of an exit poll is to determine why people voted the way they did.
Today, this exit poll in South Carolina is taking a lot of heat for obvious reasons. Is it racist to try to determine if there’s a racist component of the way people vote?
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Dozens of farmers show up in Wisconsin to bring in the harvest for a man who was killed while farming last week. Read more →
We’re not even at the end of it yet and it’s already been an odd week for trying to establish parallels with football.
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Only about 50 percent of the “eligible” (not to be confused with “registered”) voters in Minnesota bothered to go to the polls on Tuesday, and Wednesday featured the usual amount of “tsk tsk’ing” from people who did. Is it bad that half the people didn’t bother to vote, especially when Minnesota made it easier this Read more →
Though we’ve never met anyone who actually eats Wheaties, this new box is the sort of thing that can make a person give it a try. Read more →
Welcome to the airport security line with we little people, NFL players! Read more →
AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has been arrested in New Zealand and charged with attempting to hire a hit man.
The Washington Post gets right to the main issue: What does this mean for the band? Read more →
The Minnesota State High School League, the governing body of high school sports, is pretty strict about talented kids jumping from school to school. When a kid transfers, he/she has to sit out a year. Otherwise, high school athletics would become like the pros — ‘free agents’ would be jumping from school to school.
Should it make a difference if the athlete has a disability? Read more →
Public safety officials can probably cancel the PR campaign against texting and driving and concentrate instead on making drivers pay a stiff price for doing it, if a survey out today is any indication. Read more →