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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for April 2011

Weather

The tornadoes from space

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 30, 2011, 1:25 PM Apr 30, 2011

Satellite images of the tornadoes in the south.

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Missing memories

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 29, 2011, 1:50 PM Apr 29, 2011
2

Tornadoes don’t just destroy the present; they destroy the past, too.

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Tornadoes and the presidential visit

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 29, 2011, 12:12 PM Apr 29, 2011
9

Was Obama too slow responding to tornadoes in the South? No.

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Death of a pitchman

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 29, 2011, 11:47 AM Apr 29, 2011
1

Lynn Hauldren has died. You don’t think you know him. But you probably do.

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Five by 8

The look (5×8 – 4/29/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 29, 2011, 7:08 AM Apr 29, 2011
11

Faces of war, tornadoes and climate change, when people do good, the kissing case, and Superman snubs the U.S.

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Why the Twins have the Central Division exactly where they want it

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 28, 2011, 3:37 PM Apr 28, 2011
1

The Minnesota Twins lost again — embarrassingly lost — today and their fans are on the ledge, looking down.

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Legislators target majority rule on tax increases

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 28, 2011, 2:07 PM Apr 28, 2011
8

The 2012 ballot is certainly going to be a long one if all of the proposed constitutional amendment questions are approved by this year’s Legislature.

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The voter ID question

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 28, 2011, 1:13 PM Apr 28, 2011
6

Should people be required to show a picture ID when voting?

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‘Not on my ugly, blighted utility pole’

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 28, 2011, 11:51 AM Apr 28, 2011
10

There’s nothing pretty about utility poles and lines snaking around urban neighborhoods. Can a solar panel really make it worse?

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A blow against ‘folk Nazism’

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 28, 2011, 10:32 AM Apr 28, 2011

Janis Ian performs tonight in St. Paul.

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Five by 8

Tornado video (5×8 – 4/28/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 28, 2011, 7:08 AM Apr 28, 2011
8

Images from the Southeast storms, the seven sisters of Loyola, sun of Art Crawl, the walleye matchmaker, and the best baseball fan.

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A day in democracy

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 27, 2011, 2:27 PM Apr 27, 2011
6

Florida, not surprisingly, is going to be ground zero in the debate over the future of Medicare.

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‘The quaint artifact of name recognition’

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 27, 2011, 1:16 PM Apr 27, 2011
8

When does the cycle end? When news organizations get bored with the story line and turns on the celebrity whose political swagger they helped create.

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A first glimpse of Rep. Giffords

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 27, 2011, 10:48 AM Apr 27, 2011

The Arizona congresswoman has been seen for the first time since she was shot in the head.

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Surveys and trivia

The birth certificate

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 27, 2011, 8:20 AM Apr 27, 2011
18

The White House releases the president’s birth certificate.

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