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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Uncategorized

The business of 9/11

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 25, 2009, 12:28 PM Aug 25, 2009
3

The eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks are an opportunity to for some people to make a buck.

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Five at 8 – 8/25/09: The Rochester debacle

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 25, 2009, 7:31 AM Aug 25, 2009
6

Would a passenger bill of rights have made a difference in Rochester, the myth of multitasking, selling Bob Dylan, watching grass grow, and where do the rights of parents begin and end?

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Five at 8 – 8/24/09:

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 24, 2009, 7:29 AM Aug 24, 2009
4

When the shoe’s on the other foot, disappearing Monarchs, what now in Afghanistan, barroom innovations, and the school for lousy teachers.

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Mesaba faulted in stranding of ExpressJet passengers

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 21, 2009, 11:20 AM Aug 21, 2009
21

The Department of Transportation says a Mesaba Airlines crew refused requests of the ExpressJet captain to allow stranded passengers in Rochester to get off the plane.

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Five a 8 – 8/21/09: Disagreeing with ourselves

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 21, 2009, 7:23 AM Aug 21, 2009
14

When government is involved in your discussion with your doctor, the gender mystery in women’s track, where did Bob Dylan get that accent, the ELCA vote, and is your car messing up a frog’s sex life?

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Five at 8 – 8/20/09: How to clean up after a tornado

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2009, 7:03 AM Aug 20, 2009
4

What do you do with all those branches, fear of dying and the health care plan, the art of delivering bad news, the official kilogram, Michele Bachmann’s TV schedule.

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Storm video: Cars driving through flooded streets

bingrassia August 19, 2009, 3:38 PM Aug 19, 2009
13

Driving through standing water is a bad idea. But that didn’t stop these drivers in Minneapolis.

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Five at 8 – 8/19/09

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 19, 2009, 7:36 AM Aug 19, 2009
5

Five items that don’t include anything about Brett Favre.

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Five at 8 – 8/18/09: Making money off misery

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 18, 2009, 7:12 AM Aug 18, 2009
6

Buying someone else’s tax liens, gays in the pulpit, the devil you know in Afghanistan, the blind baseball announcer, and where can you park your bike?

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Five at 8 – 8/17/09: The power of rumors

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2009, 7:21 AM Aug 17, 2009
5

Cyberbullying, how the ‘death panel’ story changed the health care debate, binge-drinking seniors, your cocaine-contaminated money, and Calvin and Hobbes.

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Caissons before clunkers?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 15, 2009, 1:37 PM Aug 15, 2009
1

If the country can afford to buy new cars for people, can’t it buy new caissons for the funerals of its soldiers?

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Five at 8 – 8/14/09: When do you forgive?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2009, 7:14 AM Aug 14, 2009
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What good is an apology, would you be my homeboy, falling in love with a WASP, video of the Hudson River crash, and where are Minnesota’s uninsured?

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Five at 8 – 8/13/09: What about Rosemary?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 13, 2009, 7:23 AM Aug 13, 2009
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The value of coffee and gossip with the neighbors, how to talk to people who don’t like you, why do kids like their parents, how did the Rosemarys get forgotten, would you pay for spam e-mail?

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Five at 8 – 8/12/09

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 12, 2009, 7:21 AM Aug 12, 2009
4

Show me your August. Hells Angels vs. the cops, the reality of the broken immigration system, how not to experience the moment, the end of ‘sleepovers,’ and the gentle whipping of the American worker.

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Five at 8: 8/11/09

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 11, 2009, 7:35 AM Aug 11, 2009
4

Getting state help for the unemployed, where are all the passengers from the Continental Express Jet flight, a sportswriter admits he’s got a drinking problem, the secret of happiness from the man who created the pain index, and the long life of optimists.

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