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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.

Abuse or protection?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 2, 2010, 12:16 PM Mar 2, 2010
1

Should schools be required to adopt a policy on when students can be restrained?

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Should veterans sacrifice again?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 2, 2010, 9:02 AM Mar 2, 2010
9

A newspaper editorial suggests veterans shouldn’t be shielded from the effect of budget cuts.

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Five by 8

Five at 8 – 3/2/10: The billboard brouhaha

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 2, 2010, 7:24 AM Mar 2, 2010
1

Are digital billboards really distracting anymore, parents and sick children, women and their workload, videos and military recruiting, and why noses are better than fingerprints.

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Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio: Calculating the appliance rebate benefit

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2010, 5:32 PM Mar 1, 2010
5

How much energy will be saved with the state rebates on appliances?

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Live-blogging: The (failed) override vote

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2010, 3:08 PM Mar 1, 2010
21

What do you think about the failure to keep alive the health care program for the poor?

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Clunkers again

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2010, 1:15 PM Mar 1, 2010

The Cash for Clunkers program moves to appliances.

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Who owns the view?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2010, 11:53 AM Mar 1, 2010
1

Where does your right to a view end and my right to block it begin?

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Five by 8

Five at 8 – 3/1/10: The new face of pollution

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2010, 7:02 AM Mar 1, 2010
5

Dispelling the romance of the farm, what’s Clarence Thomas really like, the silver medal and the Seinfeld Generation, God and disasters, and do you remember your drive to work today?

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Embracing winter: One last day

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 28, 2010, 2:30 PM Feb 28, 2010

Ice-house neighborhoods disappear in Minnesota.

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Lifeline to summer

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 28, 2010, 8:04 AM Feb 28, 2010

No matter how hard we try to embrace winter, it overstays its welcome around March.

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The Quiz

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2010, 2:20 PM Feb 26, 2010
14

What a week! Do you remember any of it?

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Hockey the way it used to be

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2010, 12:26 PM Feb 26, 2010

A reminder of how much the sport has changed.

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You’re the principal

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2010, 11:09 AM Feb 26, 2010
4

What do you do with a kid with a toy gun?

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Five by 8

Five at 8 – 2/26/10: On class and grace

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2010, 7:25 AM Feb 26, 2010
11

Losing a game and winning hearts, taking suicide seriously, group therapy for back pain, the health care summit, and Conan O’Brien loses to a cat.

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Health care and homelessness

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 25, 2010, 3:17 PM Feb 25, 2010
35

When it comes to real people and health care, the clock ticks while the politicians talk.

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