Bob Collins
If the key to getting a dropout back in the classroom is Slug or at least a message the kids can relate to, what the key to keeping them there in the first place?
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.
Does Terry Jones speak for all Christians, Redwood Falls’ generosity, a new social networking site for stories, is the kid in the street real, and dancing ’til the cops arrive.
What made “tornado alley” move 500 miles north — to Minnesota — this summer? Why have there been two major floods in Iowa in recent years, and annual flooding in the Red River Valley of Minnesota?
MnDOT begins installing a new traffic signal today — a flashing yellow arrow. What does it mean?
If kids can use spell check on tests, why not calculators? The tattoo convention, gov candidates on health care reform, everything you know about guys dancing is wrong, and the price of old stadiums.
You are the editor of a major news organization. How do you cover the event if you cover it at all?
Traversing downtown St. Paul these days isn’t for the faint of heart. If you eschew the auto because of the LRT construction on the roads, the sidewalk sinkholes might get you
A gubernatorial candidate might have the right idea about hugs, who will this generation’s civil rights champions be, bipolar and violence, let’s play dress-up with animals, and the joy of a ride through soybean fields.