Bob Collins
A Penny’s thoughts, Duluth’s ‘horrible’ film project, Marilyn goes to Hollywood, and the Indiana Jones mystery.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Five by 8
Until proven guilty, Nice Ride’s data problem, painting the American worker, return to Union Station, and the Gift Generator.
When you can’t muzzle technology, protesting straight weddings, the bell-ringing marathon, dreaming of a blacktop Christmas, and how do we keep Kevin Love happy?
Getting along after a snowstorm, can the NHL survive, end of the American ascendancy, a choir’s dream, and maybe the ‘cloud’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
The landfill philharmonic, saying ‘goodbye’ in music, the snow-emergency song, West Fargo’s guitar man, and the worst Christmas song ever.
Ray Emory’s day, the old Facebook comforter, two by two — same sex marriage in Washington state, the birth and death map timewaster, and the giant sing-along at the State Fair.
When to put the camera down, the bright lights of North Dakota, finances the gay way, the view from space, and forgiveness.
To be black in Duluth, snowshoing for the ‘singing wilderness,’ crooks and seniors, how HMOs are stiffing parents of autistic children, and the 86-year-old paperboy.
Are subsidies and incentives worth much, the last prom in Onamia, Mr. Johnson’s opus, we’re more preoccupied with our phones than each other, and Love unplugged.
Shoeless again in New York, Hibbing vs. Dylan, worked up at a football game, Winona’s elf, and is the 5-second rule real?
The message a Michigan school doesn’t want kids to hear, a dad’s dream meets a dad’s reality, the declining tax burden examined, castle laws and dead teens, and the nationwide search for ‘the hat.’
If states seceded, what Duluth doesn’t get, the kid who puts ‘special’ in special ed, the true cost of our clothing, and a cop, a homeless man, and a new pair of boots.
The Little Falls shooting, Duluth goes silent on a racial incident, the fizzling FLEX plan, the Black Friday hall of shame, and ‘not right now, boss, I’m watching the lunar eclipse.’
What to do with kids who can’t, Lennon’s confirmation, Sandy’s disaster karma, the have-nots, and the jokes of holiday shopping.
Moments to cherish in a small town, the little war on the prairie, too few gin joints on the Oil Patch, what is lupus, and about that Mauer kid.