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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for June 2012

Five by 8

Cannon Valley flooding (5×8 – 6/15/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 15, 2012, 6:47 AM Jun 15, 2012
10

Following flooding, why don’t people follow the news, a Guardsman says goodbye, would painting blacktop white make a difference, and a walk over Niagra Falls.

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Mixing business and politics

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 14, 2012, 3:00 PM Jun 14, 2012
8

General Mills showed absolutely no skittishness today when it went public with a call to turn aside the same-sex marriage ban in November’s elections.

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Do teachers have it rougher than the rest of the working class?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 14, 2012, 12:03 PM Jun 14, 2012
21

Survey numbers suggest the complaints teachers have about the job they do aren’t unique to their profession.

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Five by 8

The willingness to be uninformed (5×8 – 6/14/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 14, 2012, 7:43 AM Jun 14, 2012
25

The newspaper canary dies, the comeback of the street in Minneapolis, revisiting bike-to-work day, a sense of place in the Twin Cities, and Minnesota Nice.

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Take your exercise pill

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 13, 2012, 2:46 PM Jun 13, 2012
2

The obesity epidemic could come down to whether the obese can be motivated to take their pill.

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Is it art or politics?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 13, 2012, 12:33 PM Jun 13, 2012
1

The ‘what’s the deal with that?’ season is officially underway in Minnesota politics, with the release today of a short film for Senate candidate Kurt Bills.

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Disastrous beauty

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 13, 2012, 11:55 AM Jun 13, 2012

As with most disasters that have a pretty edge to them, the closer you get, the less pretty it becomes.

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Five by 8

Fear and loathing in Saint Anthony (5×8 – 6/13/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 13, 2012, 7:25 AM Jun 13, 2012
26

The Muslims are coming, Fight Night in Crude County, the curse of the ’67 Twins, the ‘zero’ debate renewed, and the mass nouns of sport.

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Anoka County pulls plug on commuter rail expansion

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 12, 2012, 3:43 PM Jun 12, 2012
16

Anoka County’s action today exposes the reality dependency on mass transit project funding: You can’t always trust your partners.

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Death and the diesel engine

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 12, 2012, 2:32 PM Jun 12, 2012
8

The WHO today added diesel exhaust as a definite cause of cancer.

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First flight

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 12, 2012, 1:37 PM Jun 12, 2012
12

Since I wrote last week about the first test flight (flown by a test pilot) of an airplane I built, people have been asking, ‘when are YOU going to fly it?’

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The farm orchestration

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 12, 2012, 12:30 PM Jun 12, 2012
1

There’s a flow — no pun intended — to the work on a farm that is symphonic.

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The mystery of the missing plane

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 12, 2012, 11:05 AM Jun 12, 2012
2

How can planes disappear like this? Easy. There’s no real requirement that their movement be tracked.

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Five by 8

Dispatches from the land of ‘no’ (5×8 – 6/12/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 12, 2012, 7:33 AM Jun 12, 2012
11

The right to say ‘no,’ happy people and happy mornings, do we create our own luck, getting emotionally involved as journalists, and tearing down this wall.

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In My Previous Life: The Coffee Farmer

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 11, 2012, 2:04 PM Jun 11, 2012
4

People’s journeys to the here-and-now often aren’t what you think they are.

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