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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for September 2010

Congress cuts through the noise

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 30, 2010, 2:59 PM Sep 30, 2010
12

The Senate passes legislature to turn the volume down on TV.

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Weather

Flood dud?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 30, 2010, 12:42 PM Sep 30, 2010
3

The Mississippi River in St. Paul has risen two feet in the last 24 hours, though its effect in downtown St. Paul is minimal.

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You are your license plate

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 30, 2010, 12:09 PM Sep 30, 2010
7

A social networking site ties your life to your license plate.

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Weather

Should government help flood victims?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 30, 2010, 10:31 AM Sep 30, 2010
9

Does government relief encourage people to build where they shouldn’t.

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Five by 8

War? What war? (Five by 8 – 9/30/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 30, 2010, 7:20 AM Sep 30, 2010
3

An issue is missing in the latest MPR poll, the evaporating digital media, on Tony Curtis, the Twin Ports stands up for a needy family, and your exploding volcano isn’t going to win the science prize this year.

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Twins: No ‘mo’? No problem

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 29, 2010, 3:38 PM Sep 29, 2010
14

While Twins fans fret about the team’s performance since clinching their division, it has no correlation with postseason performance.

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Weather

The river that ate Raspberry Island

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 29, 2010, 1:16 PM Sep 29, 2010

Here’s today’s updated photo of the Mississippi River at St. Paul, where Raspberry Island is beginning to disappear.

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Surveys and trivia

The myth of the texting-ban study

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 29, 2010, 11:56 AM Sep 29, 2010
3

A study purporting to show texting bans increase crashes is full of flaws.

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Five by 8

What do the polls tell us? (Five by 8 – 9/29/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 29, 2010, 7:24 AM Sep 29, 2010
11

November by the numbers, how much does a hurricane weigh, is sad so bad, the Disneyland disaster, and why don’t college students graduate in four years?

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Timewasters: The debt clock

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2010, 3:46 PM Sep 28, 2010

The Economist has unveiled the global debt clock, a country-by-country look at which countries are tapped out.

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Weather

A bridge too far

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2010, 2:34 PM Sep 28, 2010
2

Close-up images of the flood-destroyed bridge in Oronoco.

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Instant runoff voting may be a winner

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2010, 1:08 PM Sep 28, 2010
6

Well, a video about it, maybe.

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Weather

Waiting for the flood

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2010, 12:42 PM Sep 28, 2010
2

The hardest-working people in showbiz this week are the TV reporters covering the potential of flooding in downtown St. Paul. They have to do “stand-ups” in front of a river that isn’t behaving badly yet.

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Too connected?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2010, 10:44 AM Sep 28, 2010

In Texas today, no one’s complaining that college students are unable to disconnect from technology.

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Home resale prices increase in Twin Cities

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2010, 8:34 AM Sep 28, 2010

But the monthly survey of the resale price of a home in the Twin Cities was nothing to write home about. T

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