Bob CollinsWe’re about to start — if we haven’t already started — the long slog toward congressional elections in 2012.
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.
Is Facebook a friend or foe, the end of the space race, war stories, when people do good, and tablet wars.
We interrupt the steady drumbeat of depressing news for this message: It’s not all bad out there.
Gov. Walker’s prank phone call
Venus and the art of publicity
Compared to the rest of the nation, Wisconsin public employees are paid less than the national average.
Is it time to dial back the militarism of sports events, Wisconsin update: Day 9, the rape that doesn’t end, South Dakota’s China syndrome, and how to go out with a bang.
Tales from a snowstorm
At the beginning of a Capitol rally in St. Paul today, Gov. Mark Dayton apologized to protesting higher education students for what his generation “did to financial aid.” Presumably my colleague, Alex Friedrich, is going to jump into this on his excellent On Campus blog, but what exactly did Dayton’s generation do to financial aid? Read more →
One photo: Wisconsin signs
The feel-good listener considered, beauty and Lake Superior, the first woman to throw BP, Wisconsin splits at the seams, and women in combat.