Bob Collins
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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 river is above flood stage with a wicked current, which tow-boat captains are masterfully conquering.
Carving a niche in Wabasha
The current prediction is a 17.3-foot crest, more than a foot below the prediction of two days ago and nearly a foot-and-a-half lower than the prediction at the start of the week.
A shudder went through the Minnesota Public Radio newsroom yesterday afternoon: Garrison Keillor went all DFL. Again.
Whale snot and the scientist, the power of 1 and 2, leaf peeping in Minnesota, the debt of World War I, and Jim Thome in song.
The Mississippi River in St. Paul has risen two feet in the last 24 hours, though its effect in downtown St. Paul is minimal.
You are your license plate
Should government help flood victims?
An issue is missing in the latest MPR poll, the evaporating digital media, on Tony Curtis, the Twin Ports stands up for a needy family, and your exploding volcano isn’t going to win the science prize this year.
Here’s today’s updated photo of the Mississippi River at St. Paul, where Raspberry Island is beginning to disappear.