Bob CollinsHaving patted himself on the back (according to White House sources) for keeping a civil tongue during the days of services for former President George H. W. Bush this week, President Trump returned to the security blanket of Twitter late Thursday.
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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.
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It’d be OK with us if Brendan Evans’ idea catches on and becomes a holiday sensation; the world can use a little of whatever he’s having. Read more →
Victorina Morales isn’t just any member of a housekeeping staff at a hotel. Victoria Morales is a member of a housekeeping at a Donald Trump hotel. Read more →
It was a long walk to school this week for Kirsten Cox, of Swanton, Ohio, who got kicked off the school bus for bullying and was forced by her dad to walk to school instead. That’s his story, anyway. Read more →
Tear duct check time, thanks to this video released this morning by the Minnesota Vikings in honor of tight end Kyle Rudolph. Read more →
People who showed showed up Ruby’s Pantry signed in and paid the usual $20 for about $120 of food. Then something lovely and unusual happened just before they left. Read more →
Deval Patrick, the former Massachusetts governor who announced yesterday he won’t run for president, has already distinguished himself as a different kind of potential presidential candidate. Unlike most politicians who are being coy with the media while claiming they haven’t made up their minds about running for office, Patrick really was weighing both sides of running and really was undecided. Read more →
The Red River Valley Dental Access Project, which provided dental services to low-income people who couldn’t afford it, has been one of the success stories in Minnesota and North Dakota. For a $30 flat fee, volunteer dentists and dental specialists provide all the dental care needed. They don’t get paid and they put in all the hours needed. Read more →
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There are only five men left of the survivors of the USS Arizona, sunk by the Japanese in the attack on Pearl Harbor 77 years ago Friday.
For the first time in years, no survivor of the Arizona will make the trip to Oahu for ceremonies and return the salute as a Navy ship passes by the memorial. Read more →
The sooner Dane Best, 9, of Severance, Colorado, grows up, the sooner we can get some of the country’s nagging problems solved.
Dane Best solves problems. Take that ban on snowball fights in his community. Read more →
If you’ve never lived in small-town America, you’ve missed heroes at work — the people who got up before dawn and went into a tiny shack somewhere, read the school-lunch menus, the lost and found items, spinning some platters, and making people feel as if they’re listening to a neighbor, because they are. Read more →
First of all, the whole call-the-cops-on-your-neighbor-rather-than-talking-to-them thing is creepy. And oh so Minnesotan. Read more →
What gets you fired quicker in the National Football League: treating a woman like a ragdoll? Or criticizing a prima donna quarterback? I know. Silly question. Read more →