Bob Collins
The problem with rain isn’t that a baseball game might be postponed, it’s that it might be played.
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.
Golf fans, more than NASCAR fans, are likely to be bigger targets for Republican politicians.
Gustavus Adolphus and ‘case day,’ putting the cyberbullying genie back in the bottle, how nanotech will change your life, how a traffic jam can clear your mind.
There may be a good reason why TV weather forecasters are reluctant to talk about climate change. The minute they do, they risk alienating a large segment of the audience which may know as little about the science of climate change as they often do.
A farewell to Jaime Escalante, the cost of Minnesota’s chronic drunks, why haven’t U.S. rail systems been attacked, where are all the used cars, and a welcome home in St. Cloud.
For months, housing experts have suggested we’re near the bottom of the drop in housing prices, but we never actually seem to get there. Today, the Case-Shiller Index, which tracks the resale price of homes, shows that home values are still dropping, and a rebound in home prices is fading. “While we continue to see Read more →
Minnesota smokes Texas on the census, more on the Twins’ ‘novelty effect,’ everything you want to know about the health care law, terrorism on YouTube, and the mystery of ‘Earth Hour.”
Father of dead soldier fights battle alone