Bob Collins
A Twitter chill, Japan’s meltdowns, why you’re not typical, interview walkouts, and the state of hair.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for March 2011
How many backup plans make a nuke plant safe?
The first announcer, the unsung heroes of journalism, the tsunami video, Minnesota lawmakers want to roll back stateworker bennies, and the editing of the anti-NPR video.
DigitalGlobe, the satellite photography company, has provided about a dozen images on Flickr showing the devastation in Japan.
Saint Paul composer Raymond Berg describes the scene around Tokyo in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Like the rest of the world, we’re watching the situation with the Japanese nuclear power plant, which exploded overnight. It does not appear at this point that it was a nuclear reaction.
Iowa considers a bill to allow anyone to own a gun without training or background checks.
Kay Crothers, a News Cut reader and an ex-pat Minnesotan, dropped me an e-mail from her home in Crescent City, California a little after lunch today to report that the tsunami had reached her community, and at least one of the waves came in around 9 feet. Her community is just south of the border Read more →
The tsunami video and links (5×8 – 3/11/11)
The group that brought down two NPR executives this week, releases another video that might actually confirm NPR’s ethical firewall.
NASA has released this production of the space shuttle Discovery’s launch late last month.