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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.
With his new book out, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty is making the national media circuit, and providing ample opportunity for the people back home to fact check him.
Captain America fights suicide
Mark Kelly, Gabrielle Giffords’ husband, holds the congresswoman’s hand in her room at University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz.
Moving on after tragedies, religion is in the DNA, the last Nelson, the mess at the U, and overdoing birthdays.
As with most acts of terrorism, while the initial incident is horrible enough, the subsequent actions motivated by fear of a repeat can be damaging too.
From tech to trivia
Matching rhetoric with reality, silence speaks with a loud voice, from the newsroom to comedy, what hunger feels like, and embracing winter in Mahtomedi.
In the aftermath of the shootings in Arizona on Saturday, several of MPR’s social networking efforts have been collecting your reaction. Here are some of the more compelling comments we’ve received.
NTSB finds fault with engine, pilot in Flying Cloud crash
After the World Trade Center towers collapsed, Roy Chelsen spent weeks sifting through the wreckage. His friends say that’s what caused the cancer that killed him last night.