Bob Collins
St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman today announced a ban on travel by city employees to Arizona. It’s a reaction to the new law in Arizona, requiring people to prove their citizenship on demand.
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.
Few controversies — real or imagined — have died as quickly as the one over new airport signs on roadways leading to the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport.
If an agency that provides health care to Third World countries is providing health care to Americans, does that make America a Third World country?
The English-only driver’s exam
The parking directives on signs in downtown St. Paul seem to often scream, ‘go away,’ and today a group of business interests called on the city to lighten up on the enforcement.
What is this man doing? The slick. Chocolate and depression. The end of the real estate tax credit. The future of bikes.
The weekend’s tragedies involving young drivers is, deservedly, getting plenty of attention from the news media. Over the next few days, we can expect to hear more discussion about whether age 16 is too young to be driving a car. It’s a good question, but where fatal accidents are concerned in Minnesota in 2010, it’s Read more →
How do we get kids to make better decisions behind the wheel, chasing tornadoes, giving up U.S. citizenship, avoiding aliens, and holding website commenters to a higher standard.