Bob CollinsHow many different ways can a Wisconsinite drink beer?
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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.
When’s the last time you got off the couch and joined in a search because the media carried yet another story about a missing woman? Read more →
We don’t get many news stories anymore about UFO sightings, nor do we have many colorful local personalities anymore who have the nerve to propose the building of a landing strip for UFOs. Read more →
The Vietnam War isn’t over for a lot of people and the Rochester Post Bulletin’s lovely feature about Ray Winkels is proof of that.
Ray is in a wheelchair thanks to Vietnam. Read more →
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Michaela Sousa of River Falls was likely to get a stiff sentence for the abuse her then 4-month-old baby suffered in 2016. But her homophobia guaranteed it.
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We live in a world where political polls, like facts, mean nothing. Read more →
It’s a small victory in the airline industry’s war against its customers, but perhaps it will catch on.
American Airlines is getting rid of its ban on carry-on bags for its cheapest-seat customers. Read more →
In a tournament in Owatonna in June, one of the team’s pitchers had gone over his allotted pitch count. Nobody noticed.
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For the University of Minnesota researchers, there’s big money in mice.
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The possibilities of science usually outweigh the results from science so anytime there’s a hint of a breakthrough, you have to keep from getting too excited. Still, the news that an experimental drug has appeared to slow the cognitive decline from Alzheimer’s provides something in short supply in the field: hope.
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A publisher with local newspapers in Dodge County was covering a news story the other day when his camera was confiscated by a sheriff’s deputy. The data card was taken and hasn’t been returned, the Rochester Post Bulletin says.
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Maclean’s, the magazine in Canada, series — Before You Go — collects letters from people to friends and family members, ‘because we shouldn’t have to wait until it’s too late to tell our loved ones how we really feel,’ the magazine says.
A few friends of Daphnee Levesque, a British Columbia college student, have tried to take their own lives, so in the most recent installment, she writes them letters. Read more →
Dmitri Moua, 16, has gotta dance and if it takes a suit against the Minnesota State High School League, so be it, a conservative/libertarian organization says. Read more →