Bob CollinsThe falling price of a white paint ingredient signals the economic recovery may stall.
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.
Political lightning round
Defending part of the Constitution, critters on the shower head, on a paw and a prayer, a Boxelder Bug tribute to Bill Holm, and Patrick Swayze’s best video.
Green shoots – Part 1
The news today that Jody Powell died has sent us scurrying for the News Cut Wayback Machine. It’s 1977. And Time Magazine hates the new administration in town, and the new press secretary, a Mr. Jody Powell: Jody Powell, the other principal staff strategist in the Lance affair, turned out to have some of the Read more →
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Timewaster: Kanye West interrupts Obama
AP or JM?
Kindness in Brooklyn Center, Piggly Wiggly’s last stand, why you can’t believe polls, how many fingers were on the nuclear button, and is the news inaccurate or are listeners and readers biased?
There aren’t many people who can legitimately be considered the greatest human, but Borlaug is one of them.
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