Bob Collins
Helen Thomas died this morning. She was no friend of a lot of sitting presidents; she asked tough questions. President Bush refused to call on her for that reason. She once went three years without being able to ask a question.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
“Older” woman walks into a drum shop and shows the kids how it’s done. Who is she? Read more →
Nothing brings out the good like a bad break. Shaina Briscoe, a volunteer at The Current, a grant administrator for the McKnight Foundation, and a pretty well-known person in the Minneapolis bike community, was badly hurt last Saturday when she collided with a car while racing in downtown Minneapolis. She’s been in a coma at Read more →
Word reached me through the usual channels last week that the first journalism teacher I ever had — Anne Masse — passed away. Until it did, I didn’t know that much about her, really, other than she was the one who encouraged me that this journalism thing could work out. In 1971, she sent me Read more →
Think you’re smart on the news? Take the quiz! Read more →
Lessons from summer camp, another side of Tsarnaev, the people who make ‘play ball’ possible, together again in Duluth, and Cheerios’ new ad. Read more →
The suit to stop the unionization of Minnesota home day-care operators, the unemployment rate drops in Minnesota, how those little memory slips might suggest Alzheimer’s, a man who wanted to testify against Whitey Bulger turns up dead, and the 76-year-old Milwaukee man who doesn’t feel “that bad” about killing a 13-year-old. Here’s today’s news conversation Read more →
Haven’t heard Officer Javier Pagan’s story of the Boston Marathon bombing? You should. Read more →
The British Open began today in Scotland. It’s a time to honor the worst game ever invented.
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For devout Muslims, the heat wave’s come at a challenging time. Read more →
A Detroit Free Press photographer was arrested by police as she filmed an arrest. While she was detained, the SIM card in her iPhone that she was using mysteriously disappeared. A man who didn’t identify himself as a cop told her to turn the camera off, and when she identified herself as a journalist, he Read more →
… but if you didn’t do anything wrong, what’s the problem? Also: the 40-year old photo that gives us reason to smile, Aaron’s last wish, what Twitter made a guy do at the All Star game, and just when you think you couldn’t love Carl Kasell any more. Read more →
Politicians are shocked to learn the things Patriot Act opponents warned them about years ago have come true, what’s the big deal with the Rolling Stone cover, Minneapolis spent $400,000 lobbying for the Vikings stadium, hookers and pols in Saint Paul, and the dead eagle. Here’s today’s news conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current.
What’s the best way to get a view of Minnesota from space? Stick a Minnesotan in space. In earlier missions aboard the International Space Station, we were given views of the Twin Cities, as if that’s the only part of Minnesota worth looking at. That changed today, courtesy of astronaut Karen Nyberg, who spent her Read more →
Is it time to wean ourselves off the skyway culture?
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