Bob Collins
Would a passenger bill of rights have made a difference in Rochester, the myth of multitasking, selling Bob Dylan, watching grass grow, and where do the rights of parents begin and end?
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 last beam
When the shoe’s on the other foot, disappearing Monarchs, what now in Afghanistan, barroom innovations, and the school for lousy teachers.
Sign of the times
On August
Minnesota has a right to feel left out of the nationwide hype that surrounds a hurricane.
The lure of Friday night
When government is involved in your discussion with your doctor, the gender mystery in women’s track, where did Bob Dylan get that accent, the ELCA vote, and is your car messing up a frog’s sex life?
Getting away with murder?
The God-tornado storm
If missing his sister’s funeral wasn’t an indication enough that Sen. Ted Kennedy’s brain tumor is about to claim his life, today’s letter to Massachusetts state officials is.