Bob Collins
Patsy checks out, Adrian Peterson’s failure, making it OK to talk about mental illness, marinating in the online comment muck, and why do people want to get married amid cows? Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Five by 8
The suicide crisis among vets, drown your town, are you Minnesota enough, students try to revive broadcasting at the U of M, and why locals don’t want jobs at ski areas. Read more →
Information through inaccuracy, the end of NPR’s ‘voice’, what’s in Minnesota’s trash, a hater’s guide to the World Series, and what’s in a chicken nugget? Read more →
When regulations are a good idea, the end of Miami is near, the passing of the last Minnesota survivor of the USS Indianapolis, helping Dusan Travica, and what sustainability looks like. Read more →
The roots of an epidemic, the problem with dead bodies, learning to read at 54, job seekers on stage, and a home for orphan Konny. Read more →
People on a pedestal and the people who put them there, the men who catcall, keeping it wheel, kindness and cancer, and a goodbye to the Beargrease sled dog race. Read more →
The latest on the shutdown.
If you were losing your sight, what would you want to see before it’s gone forever? The mind of the steel-trap people. The charm of the farm. What inner-city kids can teach you about Facebook. Read more →
The plot against pensions, the bad message being sent by good news, what’s walking out of NPR, a really short love story, and taking Mariano Rivera out of the ballgame. Read more →
Abortion issue splits same-sex marriage coalition, calculating health care, darker days for the arts, pushing back against ‘teaching to the test’, and why we don’t fear autumn. Read more →
The seventh ring of hell: Internet comments. Al Shabab’s recruiting video. Why a sexual assault center in Saint Cloud is desperate. A study of grit. And the musical conductors who walk among us. Read more →
What New Jersey gets that Minnesota doesn’t, to be single with cancer, caution: texting ahead, the missing Minnesotans in Somalia, and why people really aren’t rebelling against Facebook over privacy. Read more →
The coverups, adjunct professors dying in poverty, should pols put the smartphones away during meetings, how the U.S. almost nuked North Carolina, and the homeless man who gives his money away. Read more →
The issue nobody will campaign on, what does Saint Paul have against Burlington Coat Factory, a fantasy world with real cash, the overpaid Minnesota athletes, and ballet at the World Trade Center. Read more →
The changing face of Minnesota, why airline fees are a good deal, sentenced to life for drunk driving, 20 under 40 in the Northland, and the Hopkins kid who knows what’s right. Read more →
How a warm welcome in Rochester changed a Bosnian refugees life. What will our economic lives be like in 2038? Last call for drive-in theaters. The unwinnable war against synthetic drugs. And is the end near for childhood beauty pageants? Read more →