Bob Collins
There was a big spike in Internet traffic for last night’s Bin Laden announcement, but nothing compared to a soccer game and tennis match.
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 Midmorning caller, who says her sister died at the Pentagon on 9/11, called the program today to say the death of Osama bin Laden doesn’t provide the closure that the experts say it should be bringing to the families of 9/11 victims.
When newspapers die, what will we save on historic days? Another Saturday night, Egypt’s shame, when people do good, and we’re all going to be OK.
The tornadoes from space
Missing memories
Tornadoes and the presidential visit
Death of a pitchman
Faces of war, tornadoes and climate change, when people do good, the kissing case, and Superman snubs the U.S.
The Minnesota Twins lost again — embarrassingly lost — today and their fans are on the ledge, looking down.
There’s nothing pretty about utility poles and lines snaking around urban neighborhoods. Can a solar panel really make it worse?
A blow against ‘folk Nazism’
Images from the Southeast storms, the seven sisters of Loyola, sun of Art Crawl, the walleye matchmaker, and the best baseball fan.