Bob Collins
Scott Simon, the NPR host, has accepted the mandate. 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.
A minor takeaway, perhaps, but we’re impressed nonetheless by how many people think they have Governor-elect Tim Walz’s cellphone number.
They don’t, apparently, because Adrian Smith, of Rochester, is getting the congratulatory texts some Minnesotans have been sending. Read more →
Tyus Jones, the former Apple Valley star and current member of the Minnesota Timberwolves, wanted to go to Indianapolis to see his brother, Tre, another Apple Valley standout, make his collegiate debut for Duke against Kentucky. Read more →
Seven people who wrote in candidates swung an election for state representative in Bemidji. Read more →
One more from the campaign and election of 2018 before we move on.
We’ll have whatever John Pinter, 83, of Cedarburg, Wis., which is near nowhere, is having. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Polls are closed. So here’s the space for you — in the comments section below — to provide your own analysis as you watch the results. Or just howl at the political moon. Whatever makes you feel better after the two year marathon campaign.
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Gracie Phillips, 82, has never voted before. The mid-term elections were her last chance. She’s been battling pneumonia.+++++ Read more →
In a bid for jobs for the people of Wisconsin, state officials opened the treasury to lure Foxconn, the Taiwanese supplier to Apple, to the state.
But now it appears it’ll have a difficult time finding workers. Read more →
‘The digital world — your smartphone, for example — and all the algorithms could have enlarged the best in humanity. Instead, it liberated the worst.’ Read more →
aybe it’s not such a bad thing if the people who are so turned off by political discourse stay home today, or so says one of those public radio bloggers. You know how they are. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
If history is any guide, about half of Minnesotans will blow off Election Day on Tuesday. Read more →
No surprise here: Monday’s daily dose of sweetness comes from KARE 11’s Boyd Huppert, whose latest story profiles the friendship between a couple of kids at Stillwater High School. Read more →
The soybeans of Arthur, N.D., northwest of Fargo, aren’t waiting for an end to a trade war that seems to have no end. They’re going to rot.
It was a good year for growing soybeans in these parts. Not so good for selling them. Read more →