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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Uncategorized

Do you know where your milk comes from?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 19, 2010, 1:08 PM Aug 19, 2010
13

I’ve been in a few milking parlors in my day, but I don’t remember any of them looking quite like this.

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The week-in-review quiz

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 13, 2010, 12:51 PM Aug 13, 2010
27

This week, the quiz includes prizes. Sort of.

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Health

‘She never knew how beautiful she was’

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 12, 2010, 8:20 PM Aug 12, 2010
48

A memorial sprouts over a highway where a St. Paul woman killed herself.

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Banking on fees

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 12, 2010, 1:21 PM Aug 12, 2010
3

A judge hits Wells Fargo for the way it clears checks and drives up fees. But many other banks do the same thing.

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Take the News Cut Challenge!

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 6, 2010, 2:03 PM Aug 6, 2010
18

It was an abnormally busy week for news in a normally slow news period of the year. You paid attention, right?

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Timewaster: The Brett Favre Retirement Curve

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 5, 2010, 2:21 PM Aug 5, 2010
1

An interactive visualization of the quarterback’s annual off-season waffling.

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On YouTube, there’s poetry – and then there’s poetry

dgaraets August 2, 2010, 2:34 PM Aug 2, 2010

Taking poetry to a venue where there are plenty of patrons with lots of time on their hands.

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The illicit things they carried

dgaraets July 30, 2010, 10:53 AM Jul 30, 2010
2

An artist shot images of confiscated items at Kennedy Airport. Photographic proof that it takes all kinds.

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White House kids: Most of them turn out all right

dgaraets July 29, 2010, 11:28 AM Jul 29, 2010

Before Chelsea’s walk down the aisle, a moment of bipartisan bliss.

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You rope you tie me; your health care makes me crazy

dgaraets July 29, 2010, 10:08 AM Jul 29, 2010
1

An interesting morning on the radio.

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7/29/10 – Five by 8: Changing habits

Eric Ringham July 29, 2010, 7:50 AM Jul 29, 2010
2

Star Wars on NY subway; zebra mussels in MN lake; Facebook security leak, again; who want’s to be an imam?; and Google is everywhere

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If Serpico had known about YouTube

dgaraets July 28, 2010, 11:30 AM Jul 28, 2010

A Russian cop blows the whistle in a big way and becomes a sensation.

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7/28/10 – Five by 8: Immigrants, alligators, and God’s particle

Eric Ringham July 28, 2010, 8:00 AM Jul 28, 2010

Immigration bill starts Thurs. in AZ; oil spill 100 days later via CNN; turn an old washing machine into a firepit; finding the God particle; alligators galore

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If you love something, let it go. Then track it on your iPhone.

dgaraets July 27, 2010, 11:15 AM Jul 27, 2010
6

This app for the iPhone 4 lets you know where everyone is. At all times. Doesn’t that give you peace of mind?

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An object lesson in the value of skepticism

dgaraets July 23, 2010, 12:20 PM Jul 23, 2010
1

Let’s see: a great local angle about an inventor who can solve the worst environmental disaster of the century. What could be wrong with a story like that?

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