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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.
How to have a bad day
A newsperson shall lead them, end of the town cafe, the most powerful video you’ll see today, what’s the story here, and the Zumbro flood set to music.
The flood is now officially on, with the activation today of the St. Paul flood webcam along the Mississippi River.
The tsunami wave measured
We’re snowblind today when we should be having some sort of festival to blow the whiteness clean out of our retinas.
The 33-member Royal Philharmonic Orchestra played a three-hour concert the other day. The audience was an auditorium full of plants to test the theory that classical music helps plants grow.
Calculating how your money is spent, the martyr of citizen journalism, the case of the Muslim teacher, they don’t call it Superior for nothing, and South Fargo’s bad idea gone worse. Also: Mysteries of the Wiffle Ball.
The art of sandbagging
A new book trailer from the Minnesota Historical Society Press has certainly opened our eyes to the fact underwear advertising was a lot more interesting in Minnesota’s relative youth.
What’s so bad about being smart, a river — or two — runs through us, remains of the winter day, how the world changed in a week, and Apple’s gay cure.
Watching a river flow