Bob Collins
Running across the Grand Canyon, why don’t facts matter anymore, inside the health care wayback machine, faces of poverty, and the backyard hockey rink.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Five by 8
It’s OK to admit the cold is cool, the color white, if a bear gives birth in the woods, can you speak prairiedog, and can cheaters at the U of M be caught?
Sports and the drunken fan, guns in school, the news from Tucson, the end of days in Wisconsin, and snowmobile trails and the interloper.
Your teacher is not your friend, welcome to Fargo, back to Vietnam, the art of fun in January, and docs and suicide.
When leaders rise to the occasion, was Tucson terrorism, Pawlenty’s dud interview, pain at the beauty pageant, and anonymous goodness
Moving on after tragedies, religion is in the DNA, the last Nelson, the mess at the U, and overdoing birthdays.
Matching rhetoric with reality, silence speaks with a loud voice, from the newsroom to comedy, what hunger feels like, and embracing winter in Mahtomedi.
How often do people survive an attack on the brain, you are the editor, how depth begins with 140 characters, embracing winter or at least faking it, the death of Maj. Winters.
Larger than life, where booze and religion meet, return of the empty nest, after Keillor, and one day in the life of the world.
How much multitasking can we do, revisiting Huck Finn, the lure of the robot choir, autism and the elaborate fraud, and why do iron Range kids think they have to leave to succeed?
Why is one homeless guy getting so much attention, your walking speed indicates how long you’ll live, the Internet is more popular than TV, who’s on steroids, and President Michele Bachmann?
Reflections on partisan journalism, why have efforts to muzzle Michele Bachmann failed, more blizzard wars, what to do with drivers who don’t know how to drive in the snow, and all the world’s air traffic in one day.
What makes you read an obituary, January, Happy New Hour, Roger Ebert’s voice, and would you rather have your flight canceled or delayed?
Ice dam removal made easy, grading the meteorologists, Idiot with a Tripod, Kodachrome’s last day, and goodbye, Rosie the Riveter.
The East Coast loses, the value of a second chance, cutting the cable cord, when the invisible war is visible, and let the quarterback controversy begin!