Bob Collins
This was a nice moment at an NFL pre-season game the other day. A returning soldier surprising his cheerleader-wife at a St. Louis Rams game. It screams ‘America!’ And also: ‘Football!’ Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for September 2015
It took almost a year, but the National Transportation Safety Board has completed its investigation into an incident at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport last year in which a taxiing Delta 757 clipped another jet that had been pushed back from its gate. Read more →
The State Patrol wants to thank the Good Samaritan who helped a trooper pull a semi-driver from a burning rig in southwest Minnesota, but he didn’t stick around. Read more →
The mass migration of people trying to flee war has one constant: the children. Always the children. Read more →
Oh, you still believe your football is better than baseball? You’re just wrong. So very wrong. Here’s why.
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If there can only be one ‘trial of the century’, my MPR colleague Tim Nelson tells me that T. Eugene Thompson’s is the one for the last millennium. Read more →
In the changing media landscape, there aren’t many people who can survive in radio and TV for 34 years; it just doesn’t work that way anymore.
That’s why the announcement from WCCO reporter/anchor Mike Binkley today is worth noting. He’s done. Read more →
Even as heroin use is becoming an increasing scourge in our area, ignoring the stories of the destruction in its path is far too easy. Here’s a mother’s story from Moorhead, Minn. Read more →
That’s the problem with traffic — humans doing stupid human things — that has, apparently, befuddled the smart people trying to build a transportation system that cuts them out of the equation. Read more →
Former Pretenders front woman Chrissie Hynde put people in an uncomfortable position of criticizing a rape victim for her response to rape with her comments to an interviewer about her new book. Read more →
Trace O’Connell, the South Dakota man accused of spilling beer and taunting Native American children at a hockey game in January, has been acquitted of a disorderly conduct charge stemming from the incident.
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Now here’s a reminder that far too few political reporters are noting with any clarity: It’s still ridiculously early. As The Week notes, ‘populist crushes don’t usually last long.’ Read more →
My morning walk is again cloaked in darkness. The sunrise song from the birds has mostly disappeared, save the occasional screech of a blue jay, which if you listen long enough begins to sound like a newspaper’s comments section.
Still, autumn is the most underrated of the seasons and it’s not really its fault, I contend. Read more →
An announcement that didn’t get a lot of notice when it was issued on Friday prompts us to recall one of the most turbulent moments in the history of public radio — the day NPR canned Bob Edwards, the longtime host of Morning Edition.
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In Prince George’s County, Maryland last week, a young woman with a 1-year-old girl had finally had enough of domestic violence, which far too often is a choice between being beaten and being homeless. Read more →