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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for December 2010

Reports of a housing rebound have been greatly exaggerated

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2010, 8:29 AM Dec 28, 2010
4

The Twin Cities housing prices are in a nosedive. Again.

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Five by 8

Who made your dreams possible? (5×8 – 12/28/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2010, 7:11 AM Dec 28, 2010
4

Who went above and beyond for you in 2010, the speed of tech, the long slog of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, on the third day of Christmas, and the curse of snow glaciers.

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Weather

Blizzard wars: The snarl

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2010, 2:02 PM Dec 27, 2010
5

The East Coast had a slight edge in the ‘we feel sorry for you’ category in today’s News Cut Blizzard War. That evaporated the minute we saw this in the ‘handling the snarl’ category:

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Weather

Blizzard wars: Time-lapse video

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2010, 11:49 AM Dec 27, 2010
6

The battle of the Midwest vs. East Coast continues

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Political beliefs: It’s in the eyes

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2010, 11:32 AM Dec 27, 2010
8

A study says political beliefs may be tied to biology.

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Weather

One picture: The cigarette break

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2010, 10:19 AM Dec 27, 2010
3

When it snows in New York, it’s time for a cigarette.

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Five by 8

Snow: East vs. Midwest (5×8 – 12/27/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2010, 7:15 AM Dec 27, 2010
4

Are we tougher than the East, why don’t airports use the same security procedures, Jon Stewart becomes an insider, the arm-wrestling champion, and what good was TARP?

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Saying something good

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 24, 2010, 9:06 AM Dec 24, 2010
9

The comments section is open. In the spirit of the season, everybody write something that says something good about someone else.

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The Schorr files

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 23, 2010, 1:32 PM Dec 23, 2010
2

Even to this day, the thought that a president could put the FBI on the trail of a journalist because he didn’t like the reporting sends shivers up the spines of rational people.

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Reconfiguring the sky

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 23, 2010, 10:41 AM Dec 23, 2010
2

A reconfiguration of Delta airplanes may change your chances of winning a seat upgrade.

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Five by 8

People power (5X8 – 12/23/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 23, 2010, 7:17 AM Dec 23, 2010

When people do good, the power of Twitter, a letter from the Metrodome, what a car crash looks like, and behind the scenes at Talk of the Nation.

Painting Pawlenty

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2010, 2:49 PM Dec 22, 2010
6

Can a Minnesota artist paint a proper portrait of the governor? Let’s find out.

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The good Favre

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2010, 1:05 PM Dec 22, 2010
4

A visit to a boy with cancer provides a side of the soon-to-be-ex-Vikings quarterback that we haven’t heard about for awhile.

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NTSB issues report on 2009 plane crash near Mahnomen

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2010, 12:04 PM Dec 22, 2010

The plane, piloted by Andrew Lindberg of Farmington, disappeared while flying to a hunting destination to meet his father in Hallock.

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Hospitals in the news

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2010, 10:48 AM Dec 22, 2010
2

The category du jour is ‘hospitals.’ We are not wanting for items in the news

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