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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Uncategorized

Five at 8 – 9/9/09: What’s left to say?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 9, 2009, 7:34 AM Sep 9, 2009
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The Obama speech, twin beds and happy marriages, why history is on Michele Bachmann’s side, wasting time the Monopoly way, and playing dress-up with my llama.

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Five at 8 – 9/8/09: Chase your passion

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 8, 2009, 7:40 AM Sep 8, 2009
3

What’s your passion? Have we outgrown Facebook? The demographic challenge of the Beatles. Where health care already is reformed, and free sponges gone bad.

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Five at 8 – 9/4/09: The threat of the city farmer

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 4, 2009, 7:27 AM Sep 4, 2009
5

Zoning out city farmers, a lesson plan or indoctrination, will swine flu end our civility, do you trust your doctor, and how firefighters saved the birthplace of the expanding universe.

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Obligatory State Fair post

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 3, 2009, 8:46 PM Sep 3, 2009
3

See you Friday at the State Fair for MPR Day.

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Five at 8 – 9/3/09: Should you retire?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 3, 2009, 7:17 AM Sep 3, 2009
4

Do we have a moral responsibility to retire, when we steal and when we don’t, Minnesota’s national health care model, what hath the Internet wrought, and you are who you eat with.

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The Unemployed: Jon Joriman

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 2, 2009, 2:02 PM Sep 2, 2009
1

Joriman hit a low point in March, but then realized the only thing he can control is the amount of energy he puts into the job search.

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Five at 8 – 9/2/09: The guard did it

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 2, 2009, 7:12 AM Sep 2, 2009
1

Laura Ling and Euna Lee speak out, civil rights for bikers, the luxury of the college dorm, can you afford to be a good citizen, and the most vulnerable House DFLers.

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Caisson connections?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2009, 1:06 PM Sep 1, 2009
6

A well-connected soldier got for his funeral at Arlington this week, what an average kid from Rosemount could not.

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The Unemployed: Greg Hillenbrand

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2009, 12:03 PM Sep 1, 2009
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Hillenbrand’s first round of unemployment prepared him for his second.

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Five at 8 – 9/1/09: The RNC’s self-report card

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2009, 7:29 AM Sep 1, 2009
2

Was the RNC the success its organizers claim, student protests in Mankato, is Joe Mauer the best fantasy baseball pick, the watermelon solution, and the safest Minnesota House seats.

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Five at 8 – 8/31/09: Is it safe to answer the phone now?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 31, 2009, 7:28 AM Aug 31, 2009
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The crackdown on robocalls, the odds of the GOP taking over the Minnesota House, the foreclosure judge, no beer at the ballpark, and the limits of our ability to waste time.

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Five at 8 – 8/28/09: Seeing red

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 28, 2009, 7:22 AM Aug 28, 2009
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Why you see red, should we be nosier neighbors, why can’t Iowa get the Katrina treatment, the end of Reading Rainbow, and when obscenity is art… or not.

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Frozen fairgrounds

bingrassia August 27, 2009, 1:13 PM Aug 27, 2009
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MPR’s Nikki Tundel took some stunning photos of the State Fairgrounds — in January.

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Five at 8 – 8/27/09: Why are we afraid of the C-word?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2009, 7:59 AM Aug 27, 2009
4

What is corruption, what happened to volunteering, step away from the computer, planting the Gunflint Trail, and closing the wind tunnels.

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Five at 8 – 8/26/09

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2009, 7:42 AM Aug 26, 2009

Getting to the heart of the gang strike force scandal, Ms. Missouri Nursing Home 2009, beware the cold snap, how Britney Spears can diagnose Alzheimer’s, and the goat story redux.

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