Bob Collins
Twitter’s not for teens, 10 wind turbines that push the limits of design, the humanity of Worthington, remembering when we paid attention to space shots, and whatever happened to suicide bombings in Jerusalem?
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.
Regina Benjamin, the apparent new surgeon general, has a story that is decidedly non-Washington.
Growing up in the ’60s in Massachusetts, one of the most frightening summers was spent watching a group of kids (we had no idea who they were; back then your mother turned you loose and you met up with whomever you met up with) play this game in which one would get behind the other, Read more →
The moon’s reluctant hero, a house of hay, can video gaming slow our brain’s decline, what do you do when you feel helpless, and can Joe Mauer survive the Home Run Derby?
Fact-checking Bachmann
Is the time still right for Minnesota to try to buy land for a park around Lake Vermilion?
Duck and cover, timewasting with online calculators, new technology reveals the Twins need a secondbaseman, Family Dependency Court’s first grad, and why do Scandinavians write great crime novels?