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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for September 2009

Political support softening for continued war in Afghanistan

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 22, 2009, 2:32 PM Sep 22, 2009

A Pew Research survey shows the problem U.S. military leaders in Afghanistan have selling a escalation of the war there to the American people.

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Testimony of the cardboard sign

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 22, 2009, 12:45 PM Sep 22, 2009
2

What can we learn from the cardboard signs by the side of the road?

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Obama on racism

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 22, 2009, 8:30 AM Sep 22, 2009
9

If President Barack Obama doesn’t think racism plays a significant role in opposition to his policies, why do so many people think it does?

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Five at 8 – 9/22/09: Pondering change

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 22, 2009, 7:32 AM Sep 22, 2009
3

The geniuses among us. Who owns the cure? The digital divide bridged in Rwanda. Finding our lost siblings. And forget the egg nonsense.

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All about us

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 21, 2009, 5:51 PM Sep 21, 2009
1

The Census Bureau’s American Community Survey tells us what we already suspected.

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Strung out on sanitizer?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 21, 2009, 1:50 PM Sep 21, 2009
9

Some parents worry about the alcohol content in hand sanitizer.

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Recession-proof jobs: Crop duster

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 21, 2009, 12:22 PM Sep 21, 2009
3

If the cubicle-bound day job doesn’t work out, maybe you can be a crop duster.

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I see your ‘dumb,’ and I raise you an ‘elitist’

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 21, 2009, 10:24 AM Sep 21, 2009
5

Old tensions are new again.

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Five at 8- 9/21/09: Problem-solving the American way

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 21, 2009, 7:25 AM Sep 21, 2009
5

Innovations from a willingness to solve a problem, losing a war in Afghanistan, freemium Web sites, summer camp for the Victorians, and the kinship between rap music and talk radio.

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The Week in Review Quiz

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2009, 4:02 PM Sep 18, 2009
5

If you read News Cut this week, you’re smarter than you were. If you didn’t, nothing can save you on this week’s quiz.

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Surveys and trivia

One for the Situation Room

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2009, 12:29 PM Sep 18, 2009
5

In a battle of wits, a journalist is no match for a comedian.

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Will a tax/fee cost jobs? ‘Yes,’ Minnesota DFLers say

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2009, 12:15 PM Sep 18, 2009
1

Rallying around Medtronic

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Ramstad for governor?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2009, 11:31 AM Sep 18, 2009
5

The former congressman drops a firecracker.

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Five at 8 – 9/18/09: What kind of person?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2009, 7:40 AM Sep 18, 2009
12

Toxic farmers, the Last Man Club, a kidney on Facebook, the kind of father we wish we were, and the kind of person we’re glad we’re not.

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One Picture: ‘I’d give it all up to have my son back.’

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2009, 4:10 PM Sep 17, 2009

A mother and father get their son’s medal.

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