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.
Katie Bouman was in high school in Indiana when she first learned about the Event Horizon Telescope. As a doctoral student at MIT, she helped in the creation of an algorithm that helped devise imaging methods to piece together data from the system. Read more →
This is a pretty incredible photograph from Associated Press White House photograph Pablo Martinez Monsivais. Read more →
WordPress was down for most of the morning, so I couldn’t give you the benefit of my usual routine in the morning. Instead, I just went live on Facebook while I read the paper. Boring, I know, but this is gestational character of NewsCut. Read more →
Let (s)he who has never had a day like St. Louis Cardinals’ outfielder Marcell Ozuna had last evening cast the first stone. Read more →
An 18-year-old girl in St. Peter has proven that she does not deserve to drive a motor vehicle on Minnesota roads, based on a report from the Minnesota State Patrol on Facebook today. Not now. Perhaps, not ever. Read more →
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When’s the last time you cried because of a beer ad? Today. Read more →
Minneapolis-St. Paul ranked sixth in the nation of best places to live in the annual U.S. News & World report survey. Winning the whole thing would’ve been nice but we’re just happy to be in the same company as Des Moines, Fayetville, Austin, Denver, and Colorado Springs. Read more →
It take a lot to bring members of the House Judiciary Committee to tears but the testimony they heard today would stir even the hardest hearts. Read more →
Lt. Col. Richard Cole was 103 when he died Monday morning in San Antonio.
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Consumers are already paying the companies for the software to prepare their taxes. Why should taxpayers have to pay to pay their taxes? Read more →
For a lot of people, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is just a pregame show for the annual highlight reel: ‘One Shining Moment’
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As of this morning, I have written 16,057 NewsCut posts since starting the blog. None of them have reached so deeply into the hearts of individuals as the original post about the picture. None keeps coming back to life like that one.
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