Bob CollinsDylan doesn’t allow pictures to be taken during his concerts but the smartphones were out at a concert in Vienna and so Dylan stopped singing Blowin’ in the Wind and let the crowd have it.
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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.
Today’s lesson, courtesy of the best sport ever invented, is (a) don’t forget your roots and (b) don’t miss a chance to make a difference in some kid’s life.
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A four-year legal battle raged over thea question that was answered only this month: in what jurisdiction does a trial take place, given that a flight from Minneapolis crosses eight states? Read more →
You order a TV from Amazon, but when the delivery comes, it’s a different TV. A better TV. A TV that costs twice as much as the one your ordered. Do you keep it? Read more →
On the steps of West High School, someone painted ‘Immigration is white genocide’ in time for the kids to see it on their way into the school on Tuesday morning. Read more →
Long after photographers and reporters go home and the cheers fall silent, the best stories emerge from the darkness. Read more →
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An idea in California is so brilliant, there’s no good reason it shouldn’t spread to the rest of the country. Read more →
Micah Herndon, a Marine, was running the Boston Marathon on Monday as a tribute to three Marines he served with who were killed in Afghanistan in 2010. Then his legs gave out. Read more →
Gonzalez Carranza is back in the United States, apparently because Immigration and Custom Enforcement knows a bad look when it sees it. Read more →
A seventh-grade teacher in Wisconsin is on leave after allegedly separating students by race and then telling the kids to research games from their culture.
For the black kids, it was ‘slave games,’ according to a seventh grader in Shorewood, Wis.
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Brooke Windsor, 23, a tourist from Michigan, was in a good spot to take this picture of the Notre Dame cathedral not long before it went up in flames on Monday, and now she’s searching for the people in it. Read more →
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Chris Wenzel, a tattoo artist in Saskatoon, died last year of heart failure at 41. His wife, Cheryl, and he ran a tattoo shop.
She says he didn’t see much sense going through the process of getting a tattoo if they were just going to be buried with him, and he would’ve wanted Chris’ body of work to be preserved.
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Now that the Minnesota Legislature has gotten it together and banned the use of hand-held cellphones while driving, perhaps it’s time to turn attention to bowls of cereal. Read more →