Bob Collins
An opponent of Tom Emmer did the embattled Republican gubernatorial candidate a big favor by diverting attention from the minimum wage issue, and replacing it with the immigration issue.
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.
A Nevada woman’s obituary afford’s one last chance to speak ill of a politician she didn’t like.
The General Accounting Office today released a report saying consumers are having a difficult time shopping for airline fares, because the different fees make it tough to do so. The reality? It’s much worse than that.
It appears that Tom Emmer gubernatorial campaign is giving up on the minimum wage controversy, after it inexplicably kept it alive over the last week, even after it clearly was damaging the Republican politically.
Normally, predictions of severe weather have to be calculated to subtract the human tendency of weather experts to blow things out of proportion, but today feels different. Even without media, weather radios, and sirens, any trick knee will reveal that today’s weather is going to be bad.
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For many people, Tuesday’s death of George Steinbrenner presented a challenge — how to respect the dead, while providing an honest assessment of the totality of one’s life. For others, winning baseball games was all that mattered. And for others, George Steinbrenner was nothing more than the character on a sitcom.
The controversy surrounding Tom Emmer’s comments on the minimum wage is what happens when politicians don’t have specific proposals for voters to consider.
Arbitron, the radio audience measurement company, has released its annual profile of… us.
Why you should always read the story under the headline
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