MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Mary and Bob

Lucia, Collins, and chihuahua paws

Bob Collins August 4, 2011, 5:07 PM Aug 4, 2011

It’s either this or another post about the economy, folks.

Mary and Bob

When the sky is/isn’t falling

Bob Collins November 3, 2010, 5:23 PM Nov 3, 2010

Hard as it is to believe, the polarization of America, which is in evidence today with various reactions to Tuesday’s election, isn’t that new.

Mary and Bob

A military for gays

Bob Collins October 19, 2010, 4:44 PM Oct 19, 2010

The military is accepting openly gay recruits for the first time in the nation’s history.

Mary and Bob

You are: The trapped miners

Bob Collins October 12, 2010, 4:34 PM Oct 12, 2010

What’s the first thing you’d say to someone after being trapped in a mine for 10 weeks?

Mary and Bob

Lucia and Collins – 10/11/10

Bob Collins October 11, 2010, 4:34 PM Oct 11, 2010

Bret Favre’s alleged courtship rituals, the mysterious Dayton settlement, candidate who dress up like Nazis and why some Social Security recipients are giving up whiskey.

Mary and Bob

Collins and Lucia – 10/8/10

Bob Collins October 8, 2010, 4:33 PM Oct 8, 2010

A tuition increase at the University of Minnesota, how China rolls and why the U.S. can’t do much about it, the most surprising unemployment statistic of the day, and can any of the contractors in Afghanistan be trusted?

Mary and Bob

Early asteroid warning

Bob Collins September 27, 2010, 4:37 PM Sep 27, 2010

If there were an asteroid heading this way, how much notice would you want?

Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio: Steinbrenner

Bob Collins July 13, 2010, 5:17 PM Jul 13, 2010

For many people, Tuesday’s death of George Steinbrenner presented a challenge — how to respect the dead, while providing an honest assessment of the totality of one’s life. For others, winning baseball games was all that mattered. And for others, George Steinbrenner was nothing more than the character on a sitcom.

Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio: Rolling Stone’s relevance

Bob Collins June 23, 2010, 4:55 PM Jun 23, 2010

Mary Lucia reveals why Rolling Stone, which has brought down a general, had become irrelevant.

Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio: We love our bears

Bob Collins May 27, 2010, 4:42 PM May 27, 2010

On a make-it-or-break-it day for the future of the earth’s environment, it was a bear in Ely that got our attention this week.

Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio: Oil in our pores

Bob Collins May 26, 2010, 4:35 PM May 26, 2010

What’s in the news today? The same thing that’s been in the news for more than a month — only worse.

Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio – 5/7/10

Bob Collins May 7, 2010, 4:47 PM May 7, 2010

The amazing diversity of news on a given day, eh?

Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio: 5/3/10

Bob Collins May 3, 2010, 4:39 PM May 3, 2010

What’s amazing about the discovery of the car bomb in Times Square over the weekend is that someone in New York thought there was something unusual enough to call the cops.

Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio – 4/26/10

Bob Collins April 26, 2010, 4:37 PM Apr 26, 2010

An also-ran isn’t running, keeping drunks off the road, losing confidence in the Dems, and the four habits that will take 12 years off your life.

Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio – 4/8/10

Bob Collins April 8, 2010, 4:26 PM Apr 8, 2010

Today in the news, as heard on the daily news discussion with The Current’s Mary Lucia: Petters sentenced, smoking on subs, and smoking on airplanes.