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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for March 2010

Five by 8

Five by 8 – 3/29/10: Being overqualified

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 29, 2010, 7:07 AM Mar 29, 2010
5

It’s a buyer’s market for overqualified job-seekers, inhaling coffee, was the U.S. economy ever 100 percent private, how to run a car company into the ground and the flame-throwing scooter.

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Internet congressional myths

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 28, 2010, 8:51 AM Mar 28, 2010
1

Where did people get their misinformation before the Internet came along?

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Tick-tock at Target Field

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 27, 2010, 10:02 AM Mar 27, 2010
4

How long will the novelty of a new baseball stadium last?

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What’s right with us? The harmonica man

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 27, 2010, 9:44 AM Mar 27, 2010

A week of simply awful news had us searching for some decency among us.

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Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio: After ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2010, 4:43 PM Mar 26, 2010
1

The head of the Marines says gays in the military will get their own room.

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Minnesota communities in YouTube battle

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2010, 12:48 PM Mar 26, 2010
3

Today is the last day for cities to make their pitch for Google’s free high-speed Internet network.

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The Employed: Aja Halvorson

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2010, 11:47 AM Mar 26, 2010
4

A successful conclusion to a job search.

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Five by 8

Five by 8 – 3/26/10: Why Woodbury fears people with Alzheimer’s

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2010, 6:13 AM Mar 26, 2010
17

Does Alzheimer’s lower property values, the bogus EnergyStar label, do nannies make men adulterers, the Twins’ Christmas Story, and the worst that could happen to Johnny Maestro.

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Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio – 3/25/10

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2010, 5:06 PM Mar 25, 2010

The Vatican and its pedophile priests, Obama challenges Republicans, and the best way to prevent breast cancer.

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Playing both sides of the health care debate

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2010, 3:37 PM Mar 25, 2010
1

In complaining about the health care law’s effects, Republicans turn their back on a principal upon which their opposition is based.

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Debunking the Facebook-syphilis connection

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2010, 1:57 PM Mar 25, 2010

And poor reporting causes Internet sensations.

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Health care backlash

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2010, 12:46 PM Mar 25, 2010
7

Minnesota GOP lawmakers want a constitutional amendment that would prevent federal laws from taking effect until the Legislature approves it.

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Live-blogging Midday: Is the health care law constitutional?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2010, 11:05 AM Mar 25, 2010
22

Two legal experts debate.

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Surveys and trivia

‘Miss me’ wars

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2010, 10:18 AM Mar 25, 2010
8

Texas fires another shot in the billboard battle.

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Five by 8

Five by 8 – 3/25/10: The stench of death threats

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2010, 7:28 AM Mar 25, 2010
5

Distractions or disturbances, the constitutional health care question, the dud flood, a nickname for Target Field, and the Wilhelm Scream rides again.

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