Bob Collins
The end of the Minnesota GOP, slow jamming Obama, educating girls, people doing good: still running, and rescuing a farm in Ulen.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Five by 8
The future of Social Security, a son’s tribute to his child-protector mom, Music Man Murray, life and the human-powered airplane, and Tim Pawlenty season is underway.
Crowdsourcing a day in the life, behind the cardboard arcade story, who are the new poor, throwing identity away in Alexandria, and smelt heaven in Duluth.
When the NFL plays hardball, why women settle for the money, caregivers and the Capitol, the death of the Mustang, and how to know what color to wear today.
A story after death, the great flood of ’97, the end of St. Paul department stores, why there was no Pulitzer for fiction, and a Coney Island love letter.
The biological markers of depression, Alzheimer’s aware, the ‘lottery curse,’ big hearts in Hawley, and more on Levon Helm.
Careers as fall-back if the man search doesn’t work out, the soldier saint, to the patios of Uptown, the case of the handcuffed kindergartener, and 30 days of biking.
The scandal no one wants to talk about, did you cheat on taxes, dispatches from Planet Prom, the new Oil Patch suburbs, and Wits’ ‘pitch season.’
Facing the driving emergency, a Parkinson’s breakthrough, spunky kids and the prom, the Best Buy scandal, and gondoliering the spoon and cherry.
Is less more, how an iPad becomes an iPad, should welfare recipients be drug tested, no smoking in the foster home, the megabyte and you.
Where we seek solace, Supreme Court approval ratings jump, art or hate speech in Duluth, same-sex divorce, and music to reach the person who’s still alive inside.
Evaluating Mike Wallace, the story of Rosalie Wahl, for the love of the game, a tornado’s connections (continued), and who owns your ID?
A 40-year-old prediction of doom is ‘on track,’ opening day, hockey’s shame, a tale of two Marines, and it’s time to crack down on mascot abuse.
Do women care more than men, 45 minutes of Helen, death of the cookie, politics and the Minnesota wolf, and a heaping helping of Minnesota.
Does it matter if college basketball players don’t go to class, money for nothing in Moorhead, the carry-on fee cometh, remembering a flood fighter, and today’s Norway moment.