Bob Collins
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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.
It didn’t take long for the lives to change for winners of a lottery in Nova Scotia. Read more →
That the St. Paul Saints, who clinched first place in promotion smarts years ago, haven’t had a Millennial Night, is likely not an oversight. The franchise knows a third-rail when it sees one.
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The locals in Sioux Falls lost their collective minds this week, thanks to a fairly non-descript tweet that Tom Hanks made early on Tuesday in support of James and Deborah Fallows’ book. Read more →
In Duluth, “smart boards” were a focus of a $315 million dollar plan to add more technology to the classroom. But there’s no such thing as “long range” in technology. It doesn’t take long to be obsolete. Read more →
The Star Tribune obituary for Rachel Chazin will break even the hardest heart. Read more →
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We have a new way of looking at the universe. Read more →
An investigation is underway in Thief River Falls to determine if a City Council member really did swing a chair at another member during an apparently heated discussion about a splash pad project.
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Across the country, social media is revealing a growing list of incidents where people of color are assaulted for being in public. Read more →
It doesn’t take much, really, to get to the top of a list of president’s in one’s lifetime. Not many presidents serve during the average lifetime. Read more →
How inspiring Minnesotans find Smith’s story will be determined by how many Minnesotans go out and cut someone else’s grass this week. Read more →
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The newspaper business is plenty hard, harder still when it services one town of 764 (Raymond, Minn.) and another of 497 (Prinsburg, Minn.)
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