Bob CollinsThe most frightening possibility in the aftermath of the Wisconsin incident is that it didn’t happen for any particular reason.
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.
Gas mileage hasn’t been a big concern for a few years now, but from the indications on the signpost today, that’s about to change.
Whatever recovery was underway in home market values has collapsed in the Minneapolis area.
The baseball great has been admitted to a hospital. We’ll never see the likes of him again.
In one Minneapolis school, nothing says ‘fun’ like a wad of fat stuffed in collagen casings.
If we had a “cool” tag on News Cut, we’d have to apply it to this tribute to Luke Bucklin, the Sierra Bravo (now The Nerdery) who was killed in a plane crash in Wyoming last month.
Irony in the park, good vs. evil, to leak or not to leak, lessons of the ignored sibling, and postcards from around the world.
We understand the way evolution has made shopping after Thanksgiving instinctive, but we haven’t seen anything this year in the ‘I’ve gotta have it’ category that makes getting up early worth it.
It’s becoming clear that I’m going to have to start a new category on News Cut: ‘Welcome to Minnesota.’