Bob Collins
Lower taxes will greatly expand budget deficits into the future, the CBO says.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for March 2011
With the highest water still more than a week away, it’s too early for a firm indication of when the Mississippi River will reach a ‘it’s a big deal’ stage.
It was a rather big moment this week when this little number arrived in the MPR newsroom.
Stuck in red tape in Japan (5×8 – 3/18/11)
Live-blogging the highlights of today’s debate over stripping NPR of funding and prohibiting public radio stations from using public funding to purchase programming.
The NCAA basketball tournament from a biostatistician’s perspective
Video: The gas line fireball from the ground
Approaching an unimaginable task, South by St. Paul, public radio’s lousy day, hit by a flying deer, and what we can learn from a dog.
Back in St. Paul, still in Japan
Keillor’s exit
Small stories in a big disaster, Wisconsin’s controversy that won’t die, living on a welfare card, preparing for floods, and should football be eliminated from high school.
The terrible situation with Japan’s nuclear installations affords old-timers the opportunity to remember when it was a U.S. nuclear plant that was melting down. It was 1979, when the Three Mile Island plant, on the Susquehanna River south of Harrisburg Pennsylvania, melted down partially. The U.S. wasn’t really sure how to react; we’d never heard Read more →
Eight people — the crew and several East Coast business executives — were killed when the jet tried to land, aborted the landing, and then crashed into a cornfield.