Bob Collins
Generally speaking, settling scores in an obituary rarely makes anyone look good. But, according to this obituary in the Redwood Falls Gazette on Monday, maybe Gina and Jay have been waiting a long time to exact their revenge. Read more →
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.
Amy Parrish, 98, apparently fell down the stairs at her home in Richfield. Her husband, John, 95, tried to get to her. He fell, too.
And outside their neat cottage, life went on. Read more →
The self-storage industry is red hot in the United States, a curiously American business because no matter how big our houses get, we still buy more stuff than they can hold.
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If you want to start an online fight with a young person, tell them that as bad as things appear to be now — and they do appear to be quite bad — it’s nothing compared to 1968. Read more →
Dear young Massachusetts high schooler who hasn’t had a father for a year:
Thank you for your sacrifice.
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Posit: The Minnesota Lynx are more important than any other professional sports team in the region. Read more →
Daniel Smith, of Marshall High School, snuck his entry in with just 43 minutes to spare in yesterday’s Theft of the Blog Read more →
The best submission will get four tickets to the July 30th game (7:10 pm) at Target Field between the Twins and the Cleveland Indians. Read more →
A man sprung a prenup on his bride-to-be two days before their destination wedding in the Cayman Islands. Was that unfair? Read more →
Just when you’re ready to give up on the internet, a daughter in Nova Scotia comes along who just wanted to do something nice for her mother, who lives in the middle of nowhere, Manitoba. Read more →
Lindsay Gottlieb, a basketball coach at Cal, said Southwest Airlines didn’t think it was good enough when she showed her son’s passport to the gate agent, she said in a series of tweets. Her son is biracial. Read more →
Elaine Holstein has died. She was 96. She was also the last living parent of a victim of the Kent State killings at the hands of the Ohio National Guard. Read more →
Here are the stories, topics, and guests you’ll hear today on MPR News. Read more →
I cannot speak for all Baby Boomers, of course, but for many of us, there was no more horrifying boogeyman in our youth than the iron lung. Read more →
Because the nation’s courts remain locked in the quill-pen era, there are still jobs for courtroom artists and plenty of mocking of Jane Rosenberg for the foreseeable future. Read more →