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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for December 2009

The effect of health care reform on small business

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2009, 12:26 PM Dec 22, 2009
3

Use this interactive tool to see how health care reform may affect your business.

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Cam Waters, 1958-2009

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2009, 10:30 AM Dec 22, 2009
1

The local blues guitarist was an occasional MPR guest.

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Five by 8

Five at 8 – 12/22/09: Caution and the morality of giving

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2009, 7:19 AM Dec 22, 2009
2

Are we too cautious, are American students lazy, are you scared of snow yet, should you steal from chain stores, and what’s the impact of health care reform on small business?

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Surveys and trivia

About that decade

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 21, 2009, 1:01 PM Dec 21, 2009
1

Have the 2000’s really been the worst decade in 50 years?

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Five by 8

Five at 8 – 12/21/09: When the jobs aren’t coming back

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 21, 2009, 7:12 AM Dec 21, 2009
6

What to tell people in cities where the jobs won’t come back, winners and losers in the health care bill, who’s the coach of the Vikings, carbon fallout, and you don’t bring a gun to a snowball fight.

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The true charity of secrecy

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 20, 2009, 8:54 AM Dec 20, 2009
2

What’s in it for anonymous benefactors? Nothing, apparently. That’s the point.

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Weather

What’s the big deal?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 19, 2009, 3:18 PM Dec 19, 2009
5

The East Coast snowstorm is being made into a big deal because it’s a big deal. Sorry, Minnesota.

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Mary and Bob

Common cause

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2009, 5:11 PM Dec 18, 2009

Some unlikely alliances conspire to kill health care reform.

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The St. Paul Welcoming Committee

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2009, 4:45 PM Dec 18, 2009
3

When it comes to attracting people to St. Paul, city officials take it one person at a time.

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Wild times

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2009, 4:06 PM Dec 18, 2009
1

The equipment van for the Minnesota Wild was destroyed by a fire in Ottawa.

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The things that matter

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2009, 2:56 PM Dec 18, 2009
3

NPR’s ombudsman deals with a pressing issue: What to call the president.

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Weather

Little Los Angeles

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2009, 1:15 PM Dec 18, 2009
4

Minnesota is among the most polluted sections of the country today.

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Assessing Obama

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2009, 11:59 AM Dec 18, 2009
9

NPR commentator Juan Williams considers President Obama one year later.

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A news icon departs

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2009, 10:07 AM Dec 18, 2009

Charles Gibson’s recollections of his career this week are also a reminder that it’s a heck of a world out there.

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Five by 8

Five at 8 – 12/18/09: The war on Christmas?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2009, 7:14 AM Dec 18, 2009
9

Why doesn’t Garrison Keillor like lousy Christmas songs written by Jews? Also: the war on Christmas, theft of a notorious icon, dark matter and Al Franken.

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