Bob Collins
‘It was the least interesting thing about him,’ a Rosemount father says about his son.
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.
No baby, the love is on for Rachel, the nuns of summer, the nearly naked run, and watering plants made hard.
Severe storm season opens
Does a MinnPost roast reflect poorly on its journalism, or should journalists be allowed to have a laugh with politicians on occasion?
Major journalism awards for area media
Pondering Minnesota, stadium proponents hit the line, when people do good, the great abandoned bike mystery, the new American dream, and wearing a hijab for a day.
KDWB radio in the Twin Cities is apologizing for a song that aired last week by one of its morning show employees.
Technically, there’s major flooding underway along the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, even though there’s not.
Pick a park, vulnerability and joy, reporters standing in water, are WWII aircraft leaving Minnesota, and March sadness.
Timewasters: Eagle cam
What does society owe someone who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death row for 14 years? Nothing, the Supreme Court says.