Bob CollinsA look back at the last time a president spoke to the nation’s school children.
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.
What’s your passion? Have we outgrown Facebook? The demographic challenge of the Beatles. Where health care already is reformed, and free sponges gone bad.
If you listened to Midday via the radio on Friday, the whole “Al draws the USA thing” might not have been that impressive. So … here.
Zoning out city farmers, a lesson plan or indoctrination, will swine flu end our civility, do you trust your doctor, and how firefighters saved the birthplace of the expanding universe.
Obligatory State Fair post
Can a Republican jump from the starting rotation of the Boston Red Sox to the United States Senate?
Joriman hit a low point in March, but then realized the only thing he can control is the amount of energy he puts into the job search.