Bob Collins
The St. Paul Saints remain the kings of marketing in the Twin Cities.
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.
Today’s Gallup Poll makes clear the size of the task Gov. Tim Pawlenty has of getting the Republican nomination for president in 2012.
Pursuing Ricky
The nature of heroes
Are newspaper Web site comments worthless? At what age should you stick a fig leaf on your kid? Star gazing with the astronauts. The Sotomayor reviews. The Minnesota unemployment rate.
Klobuchar questions Sotomayor
Al Franken’s big question, what was your favorite recession moment, the fake moonshot, Moving Windmills, and talking trash.
The story of health care in America is loaded with lives that changed in a split second.