Bob CollinsStudent achievement for black students in Minnesota and nationwide falls woefully short of white students.
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.
Travails of the tired pilot, Tim Pawlenty: The movie, funerals by webcast, how I became a Minnesota pineapple farmer, and the vanishing mention of war.
A win for Wrenshall
Some eyewitness video has now been posted to YouTube from today’s suicide bombing at a Moscow airport.
A question to consider while watching today’s viral video of the day: How has the Internet changed us?
Business and the border states, you’ve reached the end of the Internet, the lost blizzard film, the Wind and Mr. Ug, and are you a narcissist?
Video: The cold-weather lab
Running across the Grand Canyon, why don’t facts matter anymore, inside the health care wayback machine, faces of poverty, and the backyard hockey rink.