Bob Collins
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
How tight is the National Football League with the TV networks who show the games?
Ask Bob Costas, the veteran NBC sports announcer who tells ESPN that NBC dropped him from last year’s Super Bowl coverage because he appeared at a University of Maryland symposium on football in November 2017 and said ‘the game destroys people’s brains.’ Read more →
The police at Towson University in Maryland are circulating images of this woman. She’s a threat. She’ll stop at nothing, apparently, to get a date for her son. Read more →
It’s tax season which means we must endure another round of blaming Americans because they like refund checks. Read more →
Wiley Miller, who draws the comic, wasn’t shy about alerting readers the obscene message was there.
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Laura Berg, 34, of Fergus Falls, Minn., is lucky to be alive. Jordan L. Paulus, 21, of East Bethel, is lucky she’s not going to prison for being on her cellphone when she should’ve been paying attention to driving when she plowed into Berg, who was on a road crew, putting her in a coma for two months. Read more →
George Hartman was in eight of his son Steve’s stories for CBS. And over the weekend, the last of them aired. George has died. Read more →
Oh, for sure it’s not a raccoon climbing a building, but a cardinal is currently at the top of the list of animals that divert the nation’s attention from less important things. Read more →
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There is nothing better in the local newspaper — in this case, the Star Tribune Sunday edition — than the tales of the local gendarmes.
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It’s all good now between Max and the Madison (Wis.) Police Department, owing to the power of apology.
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The New Hampshire Supreme Court has spoken. Women who go topless at the beach are not protected by the First Amendment.
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Katy Morgan, a TV meteorologist in Nashville, had to break into regular programming on Wednesday to warn residents about two tornadoes. She interrupted The Masked Singer, which apparently is a Fox TV show that provides the sum and substance of some people’s lives. Yesterday 2 people died due to flooding. 2 tornadoes caused damage. Unfortunately, Read more →
After a KARE 11 investigation, Target says it’s changing its app to make clear that the price displayed for an item is different depending on whether you buy it in the store or buy it online. Read more →
There’s little likelihood you’ve heard many male candidates for office examined for their “niceness” but female candidates can’t escape the inspection and a Boston Globe columnist is using Sen. Amy Klobuchar as one example.
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