Bob CollinsThe local blues guitarist was an occasional MPR guest.
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.
Are we too cautious, are American students lazy, are you scared of snow yet, should you steal from chain stores, and what’s the impact of health care reform on small business?
About that decade
What to tell people in cities where the jobs won’t come back, winners and losers in the health care bill, who’s the coach of the Vikings, carbon fallout, and you don’t bring a gun to a snowball fight.
Charles Gibson’s recollections of his career this week are also a reminder that it’s a heck of a world out there.
Why doesn’t Garrison Keillor like lousy Christmas songs written by Jews? Also: the war on Christmas, theft of a notorious icon, dark matter and Al Franken.