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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.
The greatest trick play in the history of football
It’s OK to talk war again, why your relationship may end over the next six weeks, the cycle of single mothers, is the future more important than the present, and secrets of pig spleens revealed.
Heroes of the Internet
Avoiding the next Honus mistake
Bullying again, pants on fire in the 6th District, yellow (book) fever, off to Liberia, and when people do good.
A little bit of history went up in smoke in Inver Grove Heights this afternoon when what’s left of the Rock Island Swing Bridge burned.
A mountain wave may have something to do with the crash that killed a popular Minnesota businessman and three of his children.
If planes are designed to fly without an engine, why is Quantas grounding its Airbus 380 fleet?
The most effective campaign ad was a low-key one, will judges keep one eye on the law and another on the polls, interview with a lawn sign, underwater hockey, and the stuffed bear mystery solved in Fargo.