Bob Collins
What’s your jobs plan, it’s the rain that kills, 9/11 at 10, say something nice, and daily State Fair moment of zen.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Five by 8
Our Fair summer, a better way to board an airplane, the life of Irene, 9/11 at 10, and cross carrying Chuck.
Busting the birdman, tapped-out FEMA, should daycare providers be required to join a union, blues for Honeyboy, and 500 people in 100 seconds.
Why the storm wasn’t overhyped, dogs and the mentally ill, the secret life of metal-detector hunters, the way we learn, and what the end of summer looks like.
Rising from the riots, Gavin goes clamming, the invisible artist, World War II reunion in Edina, and what if a comedian determined the next president.
Taking risks in uncertain times, gaming the economy, a family goes to war, censoring kids’ stories, the things you can’t do in summer, and going home again.
The predictable outcome of nothing to lose, Wisconsin speaks, PTSD and 9/11, the polar bear probe, and Ellen in Minneapolis
Why men with breast cancer get the government’s cold shoulder, on the death of Elizabeth Mulay, bring back Washington’s birthday, the new financial picture, and Keillor at 69.
The downgrade debacle, dragon boats, the 78-square-foot apartment, the food truck controversy in St. Paul, and cigarettes and the first 30 minutes of your day.
I’m not really here and you’re not really reading this, welcome the coming winter, a little zip in Duluth, a moose head in Ellendale, and to be 12 again.
When kids paint, talking cake instead of taxes, the power of the Facebook status update, the circus and the Age of Abundance, and the Somalia famine.
The message-in-a-bottle mystery, the retirement crisis, leadership qualities of the mentally ill, forgiveness in Olivia, and the problem with ‘Wigger Wednesday’.
Giffords returns to Congress, Minnesota as an ATM, how to bully a teacher, the inside story of the death of bin Laden, and your dinner shouldn’t dance.
An old solution surfaces in Washington, Dakota’s water world, the mansion by the lake, the blue screen of matrimonial death, and juggling Minnesota.
Jerome Liebling’s Minnesota, a good paddling, who pays no taxes, people who do good (cont’d), and cellphones, cancer, and kids.