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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

By Bob Collins

Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

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.

The Legislature’s agenda

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2011, 12:21 PM Jan 10, 2011
1

Aside from jobs, term limits seems to be an emerging issue.

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What about the mentally ill?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2011, 10:45 AM Jan 10, 2011
22

There seems to be little question the shooter in Arizona was mentally ill. So why isn’t there more discussion about treatment for mentally ill people?

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Five by 8

Little miracles in big tragedies (5×8 – 1/10/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2011, 7:24 AM Jan 10, 2011
7

How often do people survive an attack on the brain, you are the editor, how depth begins with 140 characters, embracing winter or at least faking it, the death of Maj. Winters.

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The creation of a country

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 9, 2011, 11:41 AM Jan 9, 2011
4

Minnesota Sudanese are driving hundreds of miles for a chance to vote on splitting their country in half.

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The Arizona shooting

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 8, 2011, 7:42 PM Jan 8, 2011
10

The latest information about the attack on an Arizona congresswoman and her staff.

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Is there a relationship between presidents and gasoline prices?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 7, 2011, 4:00 PM Jan 7, 2011
1

The latest contention from the free-market universe is a comparison of the first two years of presidential terms on gasoline prices.

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Minnesota’s ‘aflockalypse’

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 7, 2011, 1:45 PM Jan 7, 2011
2

What caused the recent mass deaths of birds? The answer may be found in Worthington, Minnesota more than 100 years ago.

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Juan Williams proving NPR’s point

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 7, 2011, 10:26 AM Jan 7, 2011
5

NPR as a news organization was open to Juan Williams’ point of view in covering the story. Williams wasn’t. That’s on him.

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Five by 8

The death of Vang Pao (5×8 – 1/7/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 7, 2011, 6:55 AM Jan 7, 2011
2

Larger than life, where booze and religion meet, return of the empty nest, after Keillor, and one day in the life of the world.

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The unemployed: Moira gets a gig

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 6, 2011, 4:04 PM Jan 6, 2011
3

One of the people profiled in News Cut’s series has gotten a job.

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The man behind the man with the voice

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 6, 2011, 3:45 PM Jan 6, 2011

The reporter who discovered the #1 personality in America right now isn’t getting much attention.

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The other Juan Williams shoe drops on NPR executive

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 6, 2011, 1:04 PM Jan 6, 2011
3

The fallout over the firing of a former NPR commentator claims the career of a news executive.

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Health care repeal attempt: Whom do you believe?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 6, 2011, 12:03 PM Jan 6, 2011
7

What if repealing the health care bill increases the deficit?

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Five by 8

Tech and the teenage mind (5×8 – 1/6/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 6, 2011, 7:06 AM Jan 6, 2011
5

How much multitasking can we do, revisiting Huck Finn, the lure of the robot choir, autism and the elaborate fraud, and why do iron Range kids think they have to leave to succeed?

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Does poetry matter? Ask Haiti

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 5, 2011, 2:34 PM Jan 5, 2011

Kwame Dawes has been traveling to Haiti since the earthquake one year ago next Wednesday. He’s turned his findings into poetry.

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