Bob Collins
If we’re a nation of wusses compared to China, how come three inches of snow grinds things to a halt there?
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.
Reports of a housing rebound have been greatly exaggerated
Who went above and beyond for you in 2010, the speed of tech, the long slog of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, on the third day of Christmas, and the curse of snow glaciers.
The East Coast had a slight edge in the ‘we feel sorry for you’ category in today’s News Cut Blizzard War. That evaporated the minute we saw this in the ‘handling the snarl’ category:
Blizzard wars: Time-lapse video
One picture: The cigarette break
Are we tougher than the East, why don’t airports use the same security procedures, Jon Stewart becomes an insider, the arm-wrestling champion, and what good was TARP?
Even to this day, the thought that a president could put the FBI on the trail of a journalist because he didn’t like the reporting sends shivers up the spines of rational people.
Reconfiguring the sky
When people do good, the power of Twitter, a letter from the Metrodome, what a car crash looks like, and behind the scenes at Talk of the Nation.
Painting Pawlenty
A visit to a boy with cancer provides a side of the soon-to-be-ex-Vikings quarterback that we haven’t heard about for awhile.