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.
Tony Hayward, the man deposed last week as the public face of the BP oil spill, is — it turns out — still the public face of the BP oil spill. On his first day off since the April explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, Hayward went to the yacht races yesterday.
After about two months, our short attention span starts to wander from most big news stories. But the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is different.
The former NBA player will be known for far more important things than his exploits with a round ball and a basket.
The opening of the latest Toy Story has people remembering their favorite toy as a child.
The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics today released a report comparing university spending on athletes vs. those whose primary role at college is academics. Athletes won, the report says.
There’s a lot of open space in rural Minnesota, and yet tornados struck buildings where few exist yesterday.
Where do you start the clean-up, the life of an airline pilot revealed, death by Twitter, should class rank be eliminated, and why do men lie?
The first severe weather of the season is a boon to those of us who like watching cloud formations.
Bob Collins
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