Bob CollinsInsurance companies are flagging people who’ve bought Naloxone, as in the case of one woman who has been trying to buy life insurance, but has been denied because of the prescription. 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 truth? First-graders can’t handle the truth!
That’s why a New Jersey substitute teacher is out of a job. Read more →
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A moment at the Capitol Tuesday reminded us that no matter how powerful we become, time still calls the shots. Read more →
The disquieting and oft-mentioned statistic that 1 in every 7 Minnesotans has a DUI conviction on their record maybe has a bright side. Because they’ve been nabbed, maybe Minnesota is safer than other states. Read more →
Shane Paulsen, of Devil’s Lake, N.D., has been dreading Dec. 2. It was the one-year anniversary of the day he woke up to a gunshot at 7 a.m. His daughter, Madissen, 11, had taken her own life. A few weeks later, her best friend, also 11, took hers, too. Read more →
Opening a can of tuna is hard, the Wall St. Journal reported this week. Millennials can’t be bothered opening the can and draining the oil/water and then preparing the tuna. Just thinking about the process makes us want to take a nap; it’s all so exhausting.
That’s pretty much the best the Journal could come up with to explain why the sales of cans of tuna are dropping. Read more →
Ruth Graham, who writes for Slate, probably is a cat lover. Read more →
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And we’re off! Welcome to another season of people driving on thin ice and falling through.
Alexandria/Douglas County has raced off to the early lead with two incidents over the weekend. Read more →
Olimpia Warsaw, who has Parkinson’s disease and diabetes and has trouble communicating, flew from Detroit to Chicago for her ex-husband’s funeral. The flight was late, the airline lost her baggage, and she missed part of the service. Read more →
It was a year ago that the Christmas season delivered a big present to Guilherme Assunção, who was filmed singing a Christmas carol while he worked in a grocery store in Massachusetts.
Whatever happened to him?
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Back in the day, people wrote letters — letters! — to people they’d usually never met. Back and forth they’d go until, for one reason or another, the chain would stop and people would go about their lives. Read more →
The way people loved Bones, a homeless man, was a constant reminder of what we’re capable of.
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