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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for July 2012

Sports

The myth of the thrown-back baseball

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 9, 2012, 10:50 AM Jul 9, 2012
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Of all the ridiculous traditions in all of sports, throwing a homerun ball back because it was hit by the opposition is the worst

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Five by 8

Hazel’s perspective (5×8 – 7/9/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 9, 2012, 7:03 AM Jul 9, 2012
2

When a 100-year-old-woman loses her home, laid down and wiped away, the passion of Monday-Friday, hunters and their deer-stand mansions, and a light approach to suicide.

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Regional history

Happy industrial park day!

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 7, 2012, 3:15 PM Jul 7, 2012
3

The big doings today are in Lakeville, which is holdings its annual Pan-O-Prog celebration. The event, a local told me, started as a celebration years ago of the opening of the city’s industrial park south of the main drag.

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Weather

Heat wave bonus

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 6, 2012, 7:03 PM Jul 6, 2012
2

Clearly, the lone benefit of an oppressive heat wave is just before it ends, you get a chance to take some pictures of some amazing cloud formations.

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This or That

Flugtag moments

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 6, 2012, 5:13 PM Jul 6, 2012

Red Bull picked a bad year to skip Saint Paul for Flugtag.

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How bad do things have to be to drive this?

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 6, 2012, 12:57 PM Jul 6, 2012
14

The State Patrol/Department of Public Safety has posted details of the seizure of this car in Koochiching County this week.

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A penny saved

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 6, 2012, 12:53 PM Jul 6, 2012
1

A lot of people are too good to bother bending over to pick up a penny.

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Weather

We are the world: It’s hot everywhere

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 6, 2012, 11:26 AM Jul 6, 2012
5

Somewhere, perhaps, someone’s summer vacation is being ruined by unusually blustery weather for this time of the year. But you’ll have to work to find it.

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Five by 8

End of the boy culture? (5×8 – 7/6/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 6, 2012, 7:18 AM Jul 6, 2012
5

Where boys don’t fit in, why do you do this, the smoking ban report card, the medal hunter, and just sing the song.

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In a crisis, your brain may be your enemy

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 5, 2012, 4:00 PM Jul 5, 2012
4

We can learn a lot about the human brain from today’s release of the report on the crash of an Air France jetliner into the Atlantic in 2009.

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Testing of drinks at airport gates not expansion of security, TSA says

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 5, 2012, 3:09 PM Jul 5, 2012
7

The Transportation Security Administration is pooh-poohing reports that it’s expanding security screening at airports to random checks of liquids at airport gates, and not just at the security checkpoint.

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Court: Locked courtroom is still a public trial

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 5, 2012, 1:04 PM Jul 5, 2012

If a judge locks the courtroom doors, have you lost your right to a public trial in the state of Minnesota?

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It’s OK, nobody else gets it either

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 5, 2012, 10:46 AM Jul 5, 2012
7

So if you’re having a hard time getting your head around the near discovery of Higgs boson, it’s OK.

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Five by 8

People doing good (5×8 – 7/5/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 5, 2012, 7:05 AM Jul 5, 2012
5

The people of Prescott, the dirt we’re breathing, when rules are rules, guerrilla gardening in Fargo, and Marilyn visits the IHOP.

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Higgsdependence Day

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 4, 2012, 4:57 PM Jul 4, 2012
1

Perhaps the neatest thing about today’s announcement that scientists have discovered a particle ‘consistent’ with the Higgs boson theory, is that the man who came up with the theory is alive to hear about it.

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