Bob Collins
Culture collides with the law, the Department of Doofus, Rod Blagojevich unplugged, remembering ‘Big Russ,’ and enough with the frog metaphor.
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.
The land of one great sunset
The lack of applause during some of President Obama’s speech to the General Assembly reveals much about the U.N.
The changing stripes of the presidential candidate, the Twins’ ballpark at night, Warren Nelson’s downfall, the end of penmanship, and the beginning of the artificial nose.
What in creation?
Testimony of the cardboard sign
The geniuses among us. Who owns the cure? The digital divide bridged in Rwanda. Finding our lost siblings. And forget the egg nonsense.
Recession-proof jobs: Crop duster
I see your ‘dumb,’ and I raise you an ‘elitist’
Innovations from a willingness to solve a problem, losing a war in Afghanistan, freemium Web sites, summer camp for the Victorians, and the kinship between rap music and talk radio.