Bob Collins
Do you take risks? And has doing so paid off for you in the quality of your life? Or have you played it safe, choosing safe harbor over the exhilaration of white water?
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.
Cyberbullying, how the ‘death panel’ story changed the health care debate, binge-drinking seniors, your cocaine-contaminated money, and Calvin and Hobbes.
If the country can afford to buy new cars for people, can’t it buy new caissons for the funerals of its soldiers?
Rail accidents can leave engineers with post-traumatic stress syndrome, psychologists say.
Woodstock’s meaning?
Both Minneapolis and St. Paul mayors have released their budget updates. Both call for increases in property taxes and reductions in some services.
What good is an apology, would you be my homeboy, falling in love with a WASP, video of the Hudson River crash, and where are Minnesota’s uninsured?
The Unemployed: Thomas Schunk
The plane crash in Eden Prairie
Show me your August. Hells Angels vs. the cops, the reality of the broken immigration system, how not to experience the moment, the end of ‘sleepovers,’ and the gentle whipping of the American worker.