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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for August 2012

Five by 8

Unschooling kids (5×8 – 8/21/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 21, 2012, 7:25 AM Aug 21, 2012
10

Should kids teach themselves, what’s the deal with your salary, breakfast and a hug in Barnum, in search of the real Wisconsin, and the games we all play that we don’t realize we’re playing.

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The Supreme Court? Take a guess

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2012, 2:54 PM Aug 20, 2012
5

Most of those surveyed cannot name a single member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Phyllis Diller, icon

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2012, 2:21 PM Aug 20, 2012
1

She died today at 95.

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A victory for free speech

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2012, 11:23 AM Aug 20, 2012
3

The importance of today’s decision is that had it gone another way, and the original verdict survived, future courts would have a good reason to expand the infringement of speech that is unpopular.

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College grads on food stamps

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2012, 10:53 AM Aug 20, 2012
23

How is this possible? Easy. You don’t find a job, or you find one that way pays lousy wages.

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Five by 8

Two approaches to rape (5×8 – 8/20/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2012, 7:17 AM Aug 20, 2012
2

What the men in Brainerd know that a candidate in Missouri doesn’t, lessons from the flooding of Rushford, when lightning strikes, drunk in South Dakota at 14, and dispatches from the music man.

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Diaper decorating, baby races, and hog calling

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 18, 2012, 7:20 AM Aug 18, 2012
4

At some point in the future, a rover is going to land on Earth in search of life, and find the remnants of a decorated diaper contest, baby races, and hog calling.

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What does your area code say about you? Nothing, anymore

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 18, 2012, 7:15 AM Aug 18, 2012
6

There’s another passing of telephone history underway: the telephone number as geographic identifier.

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The end of Ramadan

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2012, 4:39 PM Aug 17, 2012

MPR’s Public Insight Network has posted a series of interviews with Muslim parents about how Ramadan changes when you have kids.

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Surveys and trivia

How to taste coffee

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2012, 3:59 PM Aug 17, 2012
1

Coffee snobs are taking all the fun out of a cup of Joe.

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The lessons of 1862

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2012, 1:54 PM Aug 17, 2012

As Minnesota stopped this week to observe the 150th anniversary of the Dakota Conflict, it’s not a bad time to ask what parallels may/may not exist in 2012?

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Hastings’ missing link

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2012, 12:27 PM Aug 17, 2012
2

Where’s the missing link for the new Highway 61 bridge over the Mississippi River in Hastings?

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The obligatory Friday dog story

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2012, 11:03 AM Aug 17, 2012

A dog helped save a boy’s life when he was younger. Now the dog is dying.

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Five by 8

The great crosswalk debate (5×8 – 8/17/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2012, 7:12 AM Aug 17, 2012
22

Cars v. people (cont’d), a good hurricane could end a bad drought, ugly poverty in beautiful pictures, when predictions of doom don’t come true, and Minnesota moments from the BWCA.

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When you can’t say you’re a cop

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 16, 2012, 3:52 PM Aug 16, 2012
4

Better scratch ‘say you’re a cop’ off the list of ways to get out of speeding tickets.

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