Bob Collins
Track and cross country coach Joanna Warmington quit on Monday and went out firing against an investigation into her conduct by the university 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.
One in 3 U.S. high school seniors did not read a book for pleasure in 2016. In the same time period, 82 percent of 12th-graders visited sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram every day.
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Michael Barone’s radio career was launched when Garrison Keillor, who did the KSJR morning show, floated down the Mississippi River while recording artists. When the tapes back to the station didn’t arrive on time, Barone got his shot. He’s been on MPR ever since. Read more →
Kids from Erasmus Sophia Children’s Hospital in Rotterdam were invited to watch the soccer game between Feyenoord and Excelsior on Sunday.
It was a nice time for the kids who got to stand on the pitch with their favorite players before the game started. Read more →
In Stillwater, the downtown is busier than ever now that the new bridge in Bayport is open, removing the nightmare traffic that clogged downtown. Read more →
There isn’t anything in America anymore that can’t be turned into a billboard. Now 3M has upped the game, turning its Maplewood headquarters into a billboard, using the same product it makes that wraps light-rail cars, for example, into rolling ads. Read more →
If Sister Mary Sobieck, who threw out the first pitch at Saturday’s Chicago White Sox game, looks familiar to you, you’re probably an old-time Northlander. Read more →
It’s hard to figure out who the bad person here that everyone seems to be aghast at. Everyone may not want to be looking at all the new houses, but everyone seems to be buying them. Read more →
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Americans didn’t like health care much until they were set to lose it last year in the initial wave of attempts to rollback the Affordable Care Act.
That should’ve told the Democrats something. It did. Read more →
This is why baseball is confusing to teach to a novice. Even the players often don’t know what’s going on. Read more →
For all her pop hits, it’s the story of an aria that reminds us that we didn’t really know Aretha Franklin. Read more →
Amelia Weaver’s quality of life improved after medical marijuana became available to her in Minnesota. Read more →
When Phyllis and Bob Litherland started the Dairy Queen in Moorhead in 1949, their friends told them fast food was just a fad that would never last. They didn’t listen, even if it meant they had to sleep in the backroom while pouring their money into the place.
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