Bob CollinsThe state unemployment rate fell in July, but there are 100,000 more people without jobs now than a year ago.
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 do you do with all those branches, fear of dying and the health care plan, the art of delivering bad news, the official kilogram, Michele Bachmann’s TV schedule.
If you could add a second-long image from your life to this viral video, what would it be?
How does today’s report on ACT test scores compare with other tests from Minnesota kids?
Don Hewitt, 1922-2009
Opponents of President Obama’s health care plan are never going to vote for Frank, which gives him the luxury of telling them off.
Five at 8 – 8/19/09
Buying someone else’s tax liens, gays in the pulpit, the devil you know in Afghanistan, the blind baseball announcer, and where can you park your bike?
A plane that crashed near Tea, South Dakota yesterday, was part of a squadron of private pilots that touted the benefits of ethanol by flying airplanes that use it.
Picket-line politics