Bob Collins
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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.
Navigating the new with the old is a design challenge but the newest addition to the St. Paul streetscape has faithfully lived up to it. Read more →
In a Facebook post today, Grumpy’s blamed food trucks, property taxes, old buildings and people from the suburbs.. Read more →
Rosalie Vascellaro’s and Doris Rosen’s ongoing bit on WCCO a few years ago was the sort of thing that made you want to call your mom. Read more →
Members of the Henrietta Fire Department responded to an accident on Saturday in which a pizza delivery person was hurt and taken away from the scene by ambulance. But what about the pizza? Read more →
Sometimes, the eyewitness video lies about what’s really happening. Read more →
Oh, let he who has not fit the entire contents of a small office into the back of a too-small pickup truck cast the first stone. Read more →
It’s pretty unusual to see an opinion coming from the hallowed halls of NPR, so it’s a little surprising to see Scott Detrow, NPR’s congressional correspondent, conveying an opinion on the brouhaha over Sarah Huckabee being asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia the other day, even if he’s right. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
Around the time that Sputnik, the first Soviet satellite, sent the U.S. into a panic in 1960, the country began testing the aptitude of 440,000 students for the first time, with the results being sent to high school guidance counselors. The survey is still reaping dividends. Read more →
Brandon Truhlicka, of Fargo, apparently took his own life last Thursday and his family wasn’t afraid to talk about it, penning an obituary that appeared in area papers today. Read more →
The Washington Post says a library association voted Saturday to remove her name because of this passage in the opening chapter of “Little House on the Prairie.” Read more →
Who’s an ugly dog? Not you, Zsa Zsa. No, you aren’t. Oh, no, you aren’t.
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The old saying is ‘any landing you walk away from is a good landing’ but this is about as close as anyone can get to dying in an airplane while still walking away. Read more →
Thanks to the trade war that was ostensibly intended to preserve and create American jobs, some American workers will lose theirs. Read more →