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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for July 2009

The nature of heroes

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 16, 2009, 11:37 AM Jul 16, 2009
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Ed Freeman’s life is a story worth telling correctly.

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Unemployment by the numbers

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 16, 2009, 9:45 AM Jul 16, 2009
2

Where jobs are concerned, Minnesota is a have/have not state.

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Five at 8 – 7/16/09

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 16, 2009, 7:45 AM Jul 16, 2009
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Are newspaper Web site comments worthless? At what age should you stick a fig leaf on your kid? Star gazing with the astronauts. The Sotomayor reviews. The Minnesota unemployment rate.

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Business group: Raise taxes

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 15, 2009, 4:03 PM Jul 15, 2009

The national gas tax hasn’t been raised in more than 15 years. The Chamber of Commerce wants that to change.

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Franken questions Sotomayor

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 15, 2009, 1:36 PM Jul 15, 2009
9

Franken struggled in his first exchange with a Senate witness. Unfortunately, it was on a national stage.

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Five cases that changed life in Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 15, 2009, 1:18 PM Jul 15, 2009
2

Don’t think the Supreme Court affects your life? Here’s five cases from the state that went to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Klobuchar questions Sotomayor

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 15, 2009, 11:11 AM Jul 15, 2009

The Minnesota senator treated the Supreme Court nominee with kid gloves.

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Five at 8 – 7/15/09

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 15, 2009, 7:51 AM Jul 15, 2009
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Al Franken’s big question, what was your favorite recession moment, the fake moonshot, Moving Windmills, and talking trash.

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At the speed of science

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 14, 2009, 5:34 PM Jul 14, 2009

Hope doesn’t seem pointless when the subject is science.

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Little substance at Sotomayor hearings

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 14, 2009, 1:37 PM Jul 14, 2009
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A Supreme Court nomination hearing is not the time for honest dialog about the law.

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The Supreme Court and the Minnesota smoking ban

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 14, 2009, 12:22 PM Jul 14, 2009
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A bar owner used a Supreme Court decision to claim that a bar can hold a theatrical performance to get around the ban. It didn’t work.

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One person’s health care

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 14, 2009, 11:02 AM Jul 14, 2009
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The story of health care in America is loaded with lives that changed in a split second.

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Five at 8 – 7/14/09

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 14, 2009, 7:36 AM Jul 14, 2009
4

Twitter’s not for teens, 10 wind turbines that push the limits of design, the humanity of Worthington, remembering when we paid attention to space shots, and whatever happened to suicide bombings in Jerusalem?

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The boys of Somalia

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 13, 2009, 5:08 PM Jul 13, 2009

With every answer, come more questions about the disappearance of Minnesota Somali men.

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Franken’s first comments

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 13, 2009, 1:31 PM Jul 13, 2009
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The junior Minnesota senator read his prepared remarks at the hearing for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

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