Bob CollinsWhen Laura DeMarco called 9-1-1 to get help for her asthma attack, she said she was on the street. But in the time it took to find her, her brain lost the oxygen it needed to survive. She was outside the ER door. 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.
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‘I’m a saver,’ Alan Dragseth says. ‘I was building up an inventory of stuff but I never thought I’d start a museum.’ So he started a museum devoted to sugar beet farming. Read more →
If you want election results next Wednesday morning, you apparently won’t find them in the newspapers of one of the biggest chains in the country, and that’s just the way Gannett wants it. Read more →
In Vermont, as elsewhere, women have had a difficult time getting their voices heard. So now they’re using their bodies.
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No major newspaper endorsed Donald Trump in the election of 2016, so it’s easy to conclude that editorial endorsements don’t matter. Maybe. Maybe not.
Still, it’s interesting to note that the Star Tribune editorial board took a pass today on the state’s attorney general race, at least confirming that voters have seen better choices in its candidates over the years than Keith Ellison and Doug Wardlow. Read more →
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Not since Paul Wellstone, have we seen an ad that does so much to humanize a candidate, as the one Amy Klobuchar issued today with congressional candidate Dean Phillips.
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The nation is on the precipice of having nothing left to complain about now that Starbucks has negated the annual backlash against its decision to take the Christmas and winter theme out of its holiday cups.
It’s putting Christmas and winter back in the design. Read more →
A black doctor says a Delta flight crew didn’t believe her medical credentials when she rushed to the aid of a passenger. Sound familiar? It happened on a Minneapolis flight in 2016, too. Read more →
Over in Hayward, Wis., a judge has had just about enough of a justice system that is based on extending constitutional rights depending on the income of people. And that’s what the crisis in the public defender system creates. Read more →
Marco Cavallaro — or maybe it was his parents — didn’t like the penalty called him for a flagrant hit on a quarterback during his East Ridge High School’s (Woodbury) final regular season game against Centennial, won by East Ridge in a thrilling game.
Maybe it was a good call; maybe it wasn’t. That’s football. Read more →
Everybody loves Jessie Diggins. Except for one knucklehead in Afton, apparently, who tried to kill her on Sunday morning, she writes for all the nation to see. Read more →
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It didn’t occur to me to wonder whatever happened to Johnny Whetzel. For months, the post sat there. Just waiting. Until a couple of weeks ago when I received a note from Amanda Kerns, of parts unknown. She’s Johnny’s daughter. Read more →