Bob Collins
The canary in the lake, learning to accept a gay son, the other Supreme Court decisions, how a model railroad fights cancer, and why news photographers matter. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Five by 8
Should Hennepin County have whitewashed a mural, the suicide detective, do your cellphone chargers need to be unplugged, the man who sent 19-year-olds to war, art and politics, and 50 states and 50 pictures. Read more →
A neurological wake-up call, drone journalism, the Texas filibuster, end of the playoff lawn, and the beginning of the ‘Should Kevin Love be traded?’ season. Read more →
Lessons of the power failure, PTSD and moral injury, whatever happened to the bullied bus lady, why are tailgaters such pigs, and The XXXXXX Monologues? Read more →
America moves on after the spying scandal, the great gopher feet caper and other tales from the mean streets of Minnesota, return of the website, the grace of Steve Gleason, and the girl who makes your 12 year old look like a lazy punk. Read more →
The piecemeal program, one giant leap many times for a man raising money for Parkinson’s research, what’s in your bug-out kit, and then they came for my garbage, and the picture that made a father cry. Read more →
On Mark Weber. Going to an NFL game? Leave everything home.Postcard from a lynching. Prison the Sesame Street way. And the debut of the flying bike. Read more →
The inability to plan a future, time is up for old white people, want to buy a hot coleus, the angry Lego, andthe boys of Wasioja. Read more →
The genie who won’t go back in the bottle, the ‘D’ word, let the youth sports’ berating begin, blaming the victim in assault cases, and should you tip your pilot? Read more →
The Snowden question, why do tickets at ballparks cost much more than you think, healthy trees and the ‘me generation,’ is it art, and head for the bikes! Read more →
Free to be spied upon, in search of happy endings at commencements, two by two on day one of same-sex marriage licenses, last night’s Northland lights show, and a visit from Mr. Rogers. Read more →
Was the Patriot Act worth it, the signs we’re moving past racism, the people who need organs to live, the language that divides us, and Boston Marathon coverage payback. Read more →
The last walk, the business of bad news, the flag burners of Willmar, what black men and women want, and bob Dylan’s honneur. Read more →
Guilty until proven innocent? North Dakota justice. Jesse Ventura: Embarrassment. Dreaming trains. And songs to move the NPR headquarters by. Read more →
The power of hope, the people who don’t give up, cereal racists, tangled up in Bob Dylan, and the people who raise bullies. Read more →