Bob Collins
An ad in the Sunday Pioneer Press should foster speculation about what it meant.
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.
If the local news media had treated Pvt. Travis Hafterson like a dog, it would have been an improvement.
Travis Hafterson’s inability to get help for his post traumatic stress syndrome, is a story shared by thousands, his fiancee says.
A Circle Pines Marine was hours away from the help for PTSD he’s been seeking. Then the Marine Corps showed up.
Capitol showbiz
Burying dead pets, Dawkins on Colbert, why do some people persist and some don’t, texting isn’t a ‘kid thing,’ and the unsavory surprises of buying a foreclosed home in St. Paul.
Saving Pvt. Hafterson: A mother’s story
What if we ignored politics and publicized heroes instead? The Internet at the speed of time. First-person tsunami stories. Was the Jackman video a fake? 101 historic moments on YouTube.
Creative writing, politics style
Billboards as art