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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for October 2009

Fighting for the neighborhood

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 31, 2009, 9:39 AM Oct 31, 2009
2

What would you do to protect people in your neighborhood?

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Exploring us exploring the moon

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 30, 2009, 3:27 PM Oct 30, 2009
4

A lunar orbiter answers the question: Does the flag still wave?

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Your overdraft stories wanted

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 30, 2009, 1:24 PM Oct 30, 2009
5

Congress is trying to eliminate high bank fees for overdrafts. What’s your experience?

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Surveys and trivia

The smashing pumpkins

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 30, 2009, 11:40 AM Oct 30, 2009
3

Sometimes, you just need to let it out.

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Five at 8 – 10/30/09: Do old people have value?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 30, 2009, 7:48 AM Oct 30, 2009
9

Has technology made seniors irrelevant, what was your favorite recession moment, living on a boat, spending free time with dead people, and should taxpayers pay for journalism?

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Moments with Baxter

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 29, 2009, 1:53 PM Oct 29, 2009
4

There’s nothing wrong with the world that a good dog story won’t cure.

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General: Fighter jets should’ve been airborne over Minneapolis

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 29, 2009, 12:25 PM Oct 29, 2009
15

The ‘mea culpas’ continue in the wake of the Northwest 188 incident.

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Behind the scenes of A Prairie Home Companion

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 29, 2009, 10:46 AM Oct 29, 2009

What’s it like to be a guest on the show?

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For many in Congress, it’s not the economy

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 29, 2009, 9:24 AM Oct 29, 2009
7

A brutally honest exchange is taking place at the Capitol today, and few of the people elected to Congress seem interested in it.

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Five at 8 – 10/29/09: The news media’s dirty little secret

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 29, 2009, 7:38 AM Oct 29, 2009
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The news media repackages when it should report, why do kids eat lead, the Sea of Plastic, how do we know the recession is over, and the math of the World Series.

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After 188

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2009, 4:17 PM Oct 28, 2009

Some systemic problems are coming to light as a result of the Northwest Airlines incident.

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Monticello’s revenge

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2009, 1:52 PM Oct 28, 2009
6

Sometimes, government competing with private business can bring better prices and services.

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Today in the flu

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2009, 12:26 PM Oct 28, 2009
2

Dispatches from Planet Flu.

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Five at 8 – 10/28/09: Congressional comics

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2009, 7:42 AM Oct 28, 2009
2

Halloween costume ideas, the guy who can almost make you root for the Yankees, why can’t people get mental health services, should Social Security recipients get another $250, and the war on terror reconsidered.

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The Unemployed: Chris Johnson

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 27, 2009, 4:11 PM Oct 27, 2009
7

The White Bear Lake woman says human resources is neither humane, nor resourceful.

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