Bob Collins
Here’s something people on terra firma — or above it — will only see one more time: A space shuttle launch, viewed from an airplane.
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.
Every now and again, we pull up behind a car like the one we pulled up behind in downtown St. Paul this morning.
Is college worth it?
Who wants to get dirty, Duluth’s honor flight, end of the Memphis hub, the cow retirement home, and Hawking on heaven.
Stadium editorials, what free speech looks like, the rocketman over the Grand Canyon, the achievement gap up close, and the vegetable hail scale considered.
The Social Security Administration releases the list of most popular names in Minnesota.
We’re into college admission season and in a few months, many of your sons and daughters will be like this baby seal, which is getting a lot of attention via YouTube this week.
Should doctors be banned about asking about guns, the Bachmann story, the story of stuff, school counselors as luxuries, the band kids and the jocks, and Minneapolis is the new gay.