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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for December 2010

Happy Penguin New Year

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2010, 12:34 PM Dec 31, 2010
1

It’s another one of those infernal company holidays at the World Headquarters of News Cut. As usual, if news rears its ugly head, so will I.

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Death of a doc

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2010, 10:14 AM Dec 31, 2010
2

A doctor who brought health care to a small island out of a moral obligation has died.

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Tragic coincidence in Milaca plane crash

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 30, 2010, 5:29 PM Dec 30, 2010
1

Thomas Eberhardt, who was killed in the crash, was chairman of a company founded by his brother. His brother was also killed in a plane crash.

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Weather

Climate, Wisconsin style

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 30, 2010, 11:41 AM Dec 30, 2010

Maybe we should just assess this culture of ours, and maybe get back to the question of whether the climate is changing, and so what if it is?

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Trauma doc: ‘Get off the roof!”

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 30, 2010, 11:09 AM Dec 30, 2010
1

Five people have been taken to Regions Hospital since Christmas after falling off their roof. Two died.

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Five by 8

Dam ice (5×8 – 12/30/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 30, 2010, 6:54 AM Dec 30, 2010
4

Ice dam removal made easy, grading the meteorologists, Idiot with a Tripod, Kodachrome’s last day, and goodbye, Rosie the Riveter.

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Billy Taylor, 1921-2010

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 29, 2010, 4:00 PM Dec 29, 2010
2

2010 stole another great while it still could.

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What will you do with your tax break?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 29, 2010, 2:24 PM Dec 29, 2010
9

Some professors at Yale and Cornell have started a Web site to protest tax cuts for wealthy Americans, the Associated Press reports toda

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The newest American hero

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 29, 2010, 11:11 AM Dec 29, 2010
5

Newark, which is about the size of St. Paul, is no paradise, to be sure. But this week it’s got what a lot of people want.

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Wisconsin city’s police no longer chasing gas scofflaws

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 29, 2010, 10:31 AM Dec 29, 2010
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Police say most of the drive-offs are people simply forgetting to pay and they’ve got better things to do than be debt collectors.

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Discipline for Favre

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 29, 2010, 10:08 AM Dec 29, 2010

Suggestions for what the punishment should be for Brett Favre.

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Five by 8

Blizzard wars: Getting unstuck (5×8 – 12/29/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 29, 2010, 7:16 AM Dec 29, 2010
8

The East Coast loses, the value of a second chance, cutting the cable cord, when the invisible war is visible, and let the quarterback controversy begin!

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Big tobacco case reinstated in Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2010, 3:06 PM Dec 28, 2010
15

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit that claimed tobacco companies knew low-tar cigarettes weren’t any healthier than regular cigarettes.

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Alfred Kahn’s bananas

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2010, 1:08 PM Dec 28, 2010

The economist was memorable for one of the best economics lessons ever for someone trying to understand what makes recessions worse: emotion.

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A nation of wusses?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2010, 11:56 AM Dec 28, 2010
3

If we’re a nation of wusses compared to China, how come three inches of snow grinds things to a halt there?

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