Bob Collins
A memorial sprouts over a highway where a St. Paul woman killed herself.
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 myth of climate change myths
Long-time readers of News Cut know that catching a foul ball at a baseball game has been on my ‘bucket list’ for decades. But it apparently wasn’t on this guy’s. He ducked out of the way and let his “girlfriend” take the hit at a game in Houston recently, earning him an honored place as an Internet viral video.
Al Franken can’t catch a break, county fair photos, in search of typos, the blind football championships, and feeding the homeless because your mother said to.
Bee populations are declining, and mosquito populations are exploding. And therein lies a problem.
Remember the warm and fuzzy TV ad from Sen. John McCain on the evening Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for president at the party’s convention in Denver? The Minnesota Republican Party is not reading the John McCain playbook. It unveiled its first ad against Mark Dayton today. It has a certain familiarity to it…
Like some of the pictures we saw from the Gulf of Mexico during the BP oil disaster, good photography can make bad news beautiful.
Editorial cartoonists generally get a higher degree of leniency than other commentators on the nation’s editorial pages. But Mike Lester of the Rome (Georgia) News Tribune pushes the envelope on the issue of the mosque near the site of the World Trade Center.
Lessons from primary day (Five by 8: 8/11/10)
Everything that’s wrong with the ‘get it first’ attitude of news organizations is on display in the Ted Stevens plane crash.