Bob CollinsIs Minneapolis unemployment rate a significant factor in the race for governor?
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 star is born
Rice County authorities have moved against William Melchert-Dinkel, a Minnesota man who allegedly encouraged people online to kill themselves.
Dog Position System (DPS) unveiled in Alaska
The legislative session features a buffet of priorities, YouTube parents, joys of the state fair rewarded, fun with the NFL draft, and transplanting faces.
A radical Muslim group has allegedly threatened violence against the creators of South Park because of an episode that insulted the prophet Muhammad. In the episode, the children meet Tom Cruise at a chocolate factory where he is packing bundles of fudge into boxes. They ask him why he’s “packing fudge”, which angers Cruise and Read more →
Why you can still pray if you want to, tracking appliance rebates, how we stopped being pigs in the parking lot, how gay do you have to be to play softball in the gay softball world series, and beating the casino at blackjack.
What did the aviation shutdown tell us about us, CFL light bulbs, outlaw trees in Albuquerque, why brain exercises don’t work, and a trip back to the old Minnesota.