Bob Collins
The south prepares for major flooding. The north cleans up after it.
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.
The real history of radio and why it matters, is getting kids excited in school a waste of time, catching up with the Kochs, the new reality in Bemidji, on Jackie Cooper, and pothole poetry.
Minneapolis: City of right angles and glass
Not since Garrison Keillor and Jesse Ventura went at it has the world seen a politician vs. elitist artist fray like the one developing between Rep. Matt Dean and author Neil Gaiman.
Timewasters: The trailer
Laura Wilkins is walking to visit her mother in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She’s in Tucson.
Why ‘Geronimo,’ the war on pencil-necks, proof baseball hates the Twins, the new Dust Bowl, and I dare you not to click this link.
Maybe what we need to warm things up around here is a good, old-fashioned climate-change debate.
Farmers vs. city in flood fight
Celebrating death, dementia and the tubby person, can we call them the ‘Stinkies’, the top and bottom Minnesota companies, and duck cam returns.
Today’s performance before the bright lights by a White House national security adviser was an extraordinary briefing to behold.
When nearly 100 elderly people in an assisted-living home need to move to a new facility, you don’t just put them on a bus and drop them off at unfamiliar surroundings.