Bob Collins
Has technology made seniors irrelevant, what was your favorite recession moment, living on a boat, spending free time with dead people, and should taxpayers pay for journalism?
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.
Moments with Baxter
General: Fighter jets should’ve been airborne over Minneapolis
Behind the scenes of A Prairie Home Companion
A brutally honest exchange is taking place at the Capitol today, and few of the people elected to Congress seem interested in it.
The news media repackages when it should report, why do kids eat lead, the Sea of Plastic, how do we know the recession is over, and the math of the World Series.
Some systemic problems are coming to light as a result of the Northwest Airlines incident.
Today in the flu
Halloween costume ideas, the guy who can almost make you root for the Yankees, why can’t people get mental health services, should Social Security recipients get another $250, and the war on terror reconsidered.
The Unemployed: Chris Johnson
Why is religion so closely tied to a violent sport, why it’s not easy being green glass, Minnesota bears and the BBC, why are we in Afghanistan, and who’s lying in the Flight 188 saga?