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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for July 2011

The kid and the baseball II

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 29, 2011, 2:14 PM Jul 29, 2011
5

It’s Friday and Friday is for not being depressed about the news.

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Death of a poet’s poet

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 29, 2011, 12:12 PM Jul 29, 2011

Roy McBride passed away last night.

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A pilot’s bad timing

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 29, 2011, 11:45 AM Jul 29, 2011
2

The world’s largest general aviation show is a bad time to ruin your F-16.

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Stump speeches vs. solutions

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 29, 2011, 11:20 AM Jul 29, 2011
6

One of the reasons politicians might not be offering solutions to the debt crisis is that they don’t have any.

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Five by 8

The photos of pols past (5×8 – 7/29/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 29, 2011, 7:00 AM Jul 29, 2011
20

Jerome Liebling’s Minnesota, a good paddling, who pays no taxes, people who do good (cont’d), and cellphones, cancer, and kids.

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How to play chicken

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 28, 2011, 3:03 PM Jul 28, 2011
2

It helps if one side is crazy, one expert says.

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The cost of a hub airport

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 28, 2011, 1:45 PM Jul 28, 2011
3

Minneapolis-Saint Paul passengers pay about $57 a ticket more than the average airline passenger.

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Scenes from the sinkhole state

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 28, 2011, 12:12 PM Jul 28, 2011

It’s International Sinkhole Day, apparently. A happy one to you and yours.

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La Tomatino, Hastings style

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 28, 2011, 11:39 AM Jul 28, 2011
6

There are two big items on my wish list for Minnesota: (a) A Dunkin’ Doughnuts shop and (b) a good tomato fight.

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Sea of algae

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 28, 2011, 10:23 AM Jul 28, 2011

How hot and unpleasant does it have to get for you to consider swimming in this muck?

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Five by 8

The end of free (5×8 – 7/28/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 28, 2011, 7:32 AM Jul 28, 2011
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The end of free TV, the Vikes’ new man, the Tea Party illusion, when summer stinks, and how the economy really works.

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Politics

Bradlee Dean’s revenge

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2011, 12:44 PM Jul 27, 2011
12

A controversial pastor is suing two media organizations.

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Who wants a car that flies?

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2011, 12:42 PM Jul 27, 2011
4

It’s a heck of a country where there are people willing to spend money betting against the people who are betting against an idea.

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About-to-die bomber still kicking

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2011, 11:28 AM Jul 27, 2011
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It was two years ago next month that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was released from prison because he was about to die.

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Surveys and trivia

Timewasters: The hippo video

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2011, 11:08 AM Jul 27, 2011

Life imitates art in the hippo community.

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