Bob Collins
Destroying Winter Carnival evidence, love stories, trying kids as adults, a memo from the overhead bin, and photo contest winners.
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.
When goalies fight
The ‘best and the brightest’ may not necessarily be the ones who were born here, and increasingly, they’re not the ones staying here.
The joy of cold, the joy of sandbagging, the joy of breakthroughs, the joy of the iPhone, and the nurse who allegedly stole a surgery patient’s pain med.
Tales of the endless winter
The word cloud of Gov. Dayton State of the State speech looks remarkably similar to the ones Gov. Pawlenty gave.
Meet John Beecher, who lives just south of Moorhead, Minnesota on the banks of the Red River. If he’s lucky, you’ll never hear of him again.
Bernanke went to Capitol Hill today to say what he and his predecessor have been saying for several years now: It’ll be several more years before things get back to what used to be normal.
Paying to play, talking txt, roundabouts reconsidered, the point of no return, and busted in a boom.
When the Red River comes calling in March, it will try to destroy this neighborhood by finding the weak spot among neighbors.
The only question remaining from the Super Bowl, the great Ziploc controversy, the South Shore gets its day, snowblowing the roof, and should college kids be allowed to rent in your neighborhood?
Times were bad when President Reagan said ‘it’s morning in America.’ What would he say now?