Bob Collins
Comedian Stephen Colbert, who plays a conservative-leaning commentator on his nightly show, The Colbert Report, testified before Congress today in character.
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 journalist, once imprisoned in Iran, is in the Twin Cities, talking about those who are still imprisoned.
There’s life after high school, after Troubled Waters, get your Neil Young here, don’t call them Twinkies, and how high school sports helps a young man who lost his father.
Has Rep. Mark Buesgens’ privacy been violated by the release of video of his field sobriety test by Wright County authorities yesterday?
Flooding updates
Tortured by leaves, a new airline fee, should we mention teen suicide, Brett Favre plugged in, and impossible scenes that actually happened.
Documenting life’s traditions, Franken’s emotional speech, did the Emmer camp mislead reporters on Buesgens’ status, the dark streets of cities that are broke, and does the Minnesota smoking ban increase home foreclosures?
Researchers have released a study that says the Red Sea could’ve been parted by the wind.
Jim Thome and the Twins are on the cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated? Swell, when do the Timberwolves break camp?