Bob Collins
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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.
One supposes that when it takes six months for your spacecraft to travel to a far-away planet, a team of scientists has plenty of time to practice the handshake-celebration for when it all goes according to plan. Read more →
Social media has made it too uncomfortable for Major League Baseball to support a candidate with racist views. Over the weekend, Judd Legum, who writes a political newsletter, reported that the commissioner’s office had donated $5,000 to Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is in a runoff election for U.S. Senate from Mississippi. But please MLB, do continue Read more →
Ramsey County prosecutors have struck out with the Minnesota Court of Appeals in their attempt to get a rapist sentenced to something other than the 10 years of probation handed down by a judge.
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In mental health care, is something better than nothing? Some experts and an intermediary between providers and insurance companies disagree. Read more →
Give credit to Sen. Amy Klobuchar. She didn’t insult our intelligence by claiming she’s only interested in being a good U.S. senator and running for president has barely crossed her mind. Read more →
Jason Stiber could probably just pay his $1,000 fine for distracted driving and get on with his life, but the Westport, Conn., man goes to court soon in search of justice, he says. Stiber was pulled over for talking on his hash brown. Read more →
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Three years ago, Vicki Wilner, of Cleveland, Minn., misplaced her wedding ring while on a trip to Arizona. She looked everywhere for it but finally gave up any hope of finding it. Read more →
The University of Washington and Washington State University played their big rivalry game Friday, but the UW band couldn’t make it to the game. One of the the three busses carrying the band overturned on a highway on the way to the game in Pullman and the band canceled the trip. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Adrian Peterson , the former Minnesota Vikings star, didn’t learn a thing from his arrest and trial for beating his son with a switch.
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Truer words were never spoken than those by Abby Jiminez, the owner of Nadia Cakes in two Twin Cities suburbs, who seems as surprised as anyone that there’d be a market for a cake depicting a turkey’s butt with a thong surrounded by dollar bills.
‘I was kind of surprised at how many people wanted this,’ she tells the Star Tribune. Read more →
In 1945, she became the first African American to join the Coast Guard. She got a degree in psychology and became a professor at Fordham. She’s also thought to be the last survivor of the worst racial attack in U.S history. Read more →