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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.

Motorizing your living room furniture

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 22, 2009, 9:07 AM Oct 22, 2009
5

Barnstorming on your couch.

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Five at 8 – 10/22/09: The new spanking?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 22, 2009, 7:31 AM Oct 22, 2009
13

Shouting at your kids, teachers making house calls, are CEOs worth their pay, are we ready for a wave of dementia, and would you buy a mobile home from this man?

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It could’ve been tragic

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2009, 3:00 PM Oct 21, 2009
3

There’s a reason federal safety officials are reacting with such alarm when an airliner lands on a taxiway.

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Raising Hell House

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2009, 2:44 PM Oct 21, 2009
5

If it’s near Halloween, it’s time for Hell House stories.

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Surveys and trivia

The balloon kid redux

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2009, 1:55 PM Oct 21, 2009

The kid’s got a mouth.

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H1N1 threat overblown, report says

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2009, 1:31 PM Oct 21, 2009
4

According to a CBS News investigation, most people who think they have H1N1 flu don’t.

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Surveys and trivia

Time to study

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2009, 1:15 PM Oct 21, 2009
2

What do the students at Yale Law School know that the kids at Villanova don’t?

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History in sand art

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2009, 12:29 PM Oct 21, 2009
1

A history of the Ukraine in 9 minutes.

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More questions than answers in terrorism plots

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2009, 9:39 AM Oct 21, 2009
2

A Boston-area man is charged with conspiring to attack shopping malls.

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Five at 8 – 10/21/09: The vaccination debate

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2009, 7:40 AM Oct 21, 2009
6

When your choice affects others’ kids, how insurance really works, how far would you go to save your home, bad air in real time, and Dolly Parton.

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Patients or prisoners?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 20, 2009, 3:08 PM Oct 20, 2009
8

If a sexual offender treatment facility in Moose Lake is more hospital than prison, why are people worked up about flat-screen TVs?

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The Anonymous Battle

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 20, 2009, 2:00 PM Oct 20, 2009
1

Almost 40 years later, the U.S. acknowledges a little-known battle in Vietnam.

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Wangster Day exposes some racial divisions in Red Wing

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 20, 2009, 12:06 PM Oct 20, 2009
2

The school board declines a request to send letters to parents over an incident.

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Five at 8 – 10/20/09: Start snitchin’

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 20, 2009, 7:25 AM Oct 20, 2009
1

How people take their neighborhoods back, generational warfare, competitive trampolining, the Minnesota congressman from California, and a farewell to Vic Mizzy.

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Hoax of the day

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 19, 2009, 2:16 PM Oct 19, 2009
5

Want to put something over on the media? It’s easy, apparently.

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