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NewsCut

MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

By Bob Collins

Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

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.

Memorial Day and the flag

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2010, 12:37 PM May 28, 2010
1

Memorial Day is the only holiday with a specific directive for how the flag is to be displayed.

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Registering reporters

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2010, 11:36 AM May 28, 2010
7

What would happen if a state required reporters to be certified?

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Another near-miss reported

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2010, 11:30 AM May 28, 2010
3

The NTSB is investigating the third near-miss incident involving a passenger airliner this year.

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Five by 8

Five by 8 – 5/28/10: The names we don’t know

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2010, 7:57 AM May 28, 2010
6

Share your remembrances of people who served.

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Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio: We love our bears

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 27, 2010, 4:42 PM May 27, 2010
6

On a make-it-or-break-it day for the future of the earth’s environment, it was a bear in Ely that got our attention this week.

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Court: Sister can sue brother for sexual assault

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 27, 2010, 2:09 PM May 27, 2010

The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled the a state law preventing family members from suing other family members does not prevent a Walnut Grove woman from suing her brother for sexually assaulting her as a child.

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Is the crime problem in Minneapolis a ‘white people’ thing?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 27, 2010, 10:09 AM May 27, 2010
24

The problem of crime in the city is likely more complex than white people buying marijuana.

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Five by 8

Five by 8 – 5/27/10: Blood on the iPad

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 27, 2010, 7:34 AM May 27, 2010
6

How do we decide what’s worth protesting? Why polls are useless. A brisk business in flag-burning. The smoking two-year-old. And peeking in Northfield’s window.

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Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio: Oil in our pores

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 26, 2010, 4:35 PM May 26, 2010

What’s in the news today? The same thing that’s been in the news for more than a month — only worse.

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‘Top kill’ coverage

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 26, 2010, 1:44 PM May 26, 2010
2

BP reports (via Twitter) that it has started the attempt to cap the oil well on the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Surveys and trivia

Survey: Rochester is #6

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 26, 2010, 1:35 PM May 26, 2010

Kiplinger’s July issue names Rochester, Minnesota the 6th best city of 2010.

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The BP oil disaster: More than shortcuts

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 26, 2010, 12:19 PM May 26, 2010
3

Shortcuts may be too gentle a word for what happened on the Deepwater Horizon.

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It’s an illegal, old flag

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 26, 2010, 10:38 AM May 26, 2010
7

If you’re going to make an issue out of the display of the American flag, at least understand the proper way to display it.

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Five by 8

Five by 8 – 5/26/10: Twins rain on fans’ parade

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 26, 2010, 7:23 AM May 26, 2010
4

The perils of outdoor baseball, the Constitutional Convention by Twitter, should the government step in to protect Facebook users, the excitement of new citizens, and remembering Bill Hinkley.

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Minnesota education: Not up to standards

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 25, 2010, 4:06 PM May 25, 2010
8

Only 23 percent of black high school juniors can read at grad standard level.

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