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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for May 2012

Space’s new dress code

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 31, 2012, 1:27 PM May 31, 2012
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Today’s successful splashdown of the Space X Dragon (its mission to resupply the International Space Station complete) is more than the beginning of the transfer of a space program from government to private business, it’s the transfer from one generation to the next.

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Risks and rights

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 31, 2012, 10:58 AM May 31, 2012
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Two stories in the news bracket the spectrum of gay rights in America and the risks people take when taking a stand.

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When Alzheimer’s hits the young (5×8 – 5/31/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 31, 2012, 7:03 AM May 31, 2012
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The challenges of early dementia explored, public defending is not a ‘thankless’ job, start using common sense, the connection between an Irish rower and the Ojibwe, and disappointment in the trip of a lifetime.

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This is how the world will end

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 30, 2012, 3:11 PM May 30, 2012
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It will be an amazingly beautiful result, even if all life as we know it will be over.

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Does marriage make you happier?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 30, 2012, 3:03 PM May 30, 2012
2

Is it better to be deliriously giddy over a short period of time, are reservedly happy over a long period of time?

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Judges: Elected or appointed?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 30, 2012, 12:57 PM May 30, 2012
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Dean Barkley, who was a U.S. senator because Gov. Jesse Ventura appointed him after the death of Paul Wellstone, has announced plans to run for the Minnesota Supreme Court.

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Minnesota Supreme Court derails tobacco lawsuit

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 30, 2012, 10:56 AM May 30, 2012
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The tobacco industry has had a tough time winning court cases in Minnesota in recent years. It won one today, however, when the Minnesota Supreme Court killed an 11-year-old lawsuit against Philip Morris that claimed the company fraudulently marketed Marlboro Lights as a safer cigarette. The Minnesota Court of Appeals had resurrected the case in Read more →

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The danger of having an opinion (5×8 – 5/30/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 30, 2012, 7:25 AM May 30, 2012
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Local music and local heresy, the lure of the Oil Patch, Marina Keegan’s last essay, wishing away Jim Crow, and what happens to all the VHS tapes?

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Wisconsin’s ‘Marshall Dillon of the troubled South’ gets his medal

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 29, 2012, 2:40 PM May 29, 2012
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Bob Dylan will probably get most of the coverage today when he receives the Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. After all, he’s one of us. But so is John Doar.

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The 10 plants that changed Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 29, 2012, 2:24 PM May 29, 2012

The list is noteworthy as much for the plants that didn’t make the cut as much as the ones that did.

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The tough decisions

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 29, 2012, 1:18 PM May 29, 2012
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The IRS is patting itself on the back today in announcing the closing of 43 small offices, which will save more than $40 million.

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Minneapolis home prices drop… again

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 29, 2012, 12:03 PM May 29, 2012
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The experts seem fairly happy that the prices overall rose but look who’s dragging things down: those Northerners

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The case of the jailed honor student

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 29, 2012, 11:10 AM May 29, 2012
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A story out of Texas has us wondering where the line is between the letter of the law and common sense.

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Connections (5×8 – 5/29/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 29, 2012, 7:07 AM May 29, 2012
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Return to Cedar Rapids, alone together, why it’s OK to not know what you’re doing, why are politicians giving up, and the blind baseball traveler completes his mission.

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When a church burns (5×8 – 5/28/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2012, 6:56 AM May 28, 2012
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What makes a church, is concealed carry working, father’s day at Target Field, the dying newspaper, and ‘Coffees’

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