Bob CollinsWho won and lost with the final deal that’s been negotiated between area nurses and hospitals?
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.
What makes Jacob Wetterling’s situation newsworthy is that stranger abductions in Minnesota almost never happen. And if it turns out a neighbor was involved in Wetterling’s disappearance, it didn’t happen to him, either.
The horse — Peopleton Brook — went off at 1-to-9 odds, which suggests that perhaps someone bet on the human.
On a day on which it opened the new Wakota Bridge span between Newport and South St. Paul, the Minnesota Department of Transportation selected Lunda/Ames to build the replacement of the Highway 61 bridge in Hastings.
Is access to the Internet a right, the guide to buying new gadgets, what do hydrangeas say about us, why the suburbs can’t dare to be different, and the best job in the Twin Cities is on two wheels.
St. Paul picked an interesting week to unveil a PSA on how to cross a street. Downtown St. Paul — at least this afternoon — was generally abandoned because of the construction for the light rail project.
The Great Minnesota Air Show over the weekend apparently didn’t let the ‘inconsistent’ weather get to it.
A year in the life of a soldier, litter and the Friday floods, why you should care about the Boeing 787, biking across America, the secret of ‘Psycho.’
The people who will have the biggest problem are the ones who ignored warnings about driving through standing water.