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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for August 2012

Nominate: Best non-candidate convention speeches at national conventions

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 16, 2012, 12:52 PM Aug 16, 2012
7

Listening to the political insiders on MPR’s Daily Circuit this morning insist that the national political conventions are not boring and really are important, got me thinking about the best convention speeches in history that were not made by the nominee.

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Relay for Life may hit roadblock in Carlton County

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 16, 2012, 12:26 PM Aug 16, 2012
1

What if they had a Relay for Life to raise money for cancer research and nobody showed up?

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Dispatches from Deliverance

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 16, 2012, 11:52 AM Aug 16, 2012
2

When is a movie not ‘just a movie?’

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Five by 8

The sole survivors (5×8 – 8/16/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 16, 2012, 7:25 AM Aug 16, 2012

Living with ‘why me,’ selling eggs to fly, is college worth it, Rushford’s flying lawn chair squadron, and reinventing the toilet.

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Some state workers’ families caught in middle of insurance audit

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 15, 2012, 2:04 PM Aug 15, 2012
10

Some families of stateworkers are eligible for the health insurance they’re now being denied.

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Meanwhile, in Afghanistan…

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 15, 2012, 1:43 PM Aug 15, 2012

There’s a war going on, but you wouldn’t know it by the presidential campaign.

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A picture of the American Dream

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 15, 2012, 11:50 AM Aug 15, 2012
3

Young immigrants line up to apply for deportation deferrals.

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Voter ID survives court challenge in Pennsylvania

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 15, 2012, 10:20 AM Aug 15, 2012
5

In Pennsylvania, a state judge has refused to toss the Voter ID law in a case that includes almost all of the reasons on both sides of the issue in Minnesota.

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Five by 8

‘Lock the doors, kids, we’re driving through rural Minnesota’ (5×8 – 8/15/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 15, 2012, 7:13 AM Aug 15, 2012
14

Revealing rural Minnesota, everything on a stick, is energy independence possible, crop-dusting season, and sometimes you have to just keep rowing.

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The invisible bike helmet

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2012, 2:55 PM Aug 14, 2012
7

The great Twin Cities bicycle helmet debate of 2012 has had me poking around for alternatives to bike helmets. Today, I stumbled upon this. It’s a solution that isn’t a helmet at all.

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End of the line for George Jones

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2012, 2:54 PM Aug 14, 2012

Who’s going to fill George Jones’ shoes?

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A day in the life of a kid just trying to get home

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2012, 12:04 PM Aug 14, 2012
12

As we’ve noted before, no other industry works as hard as the airline industry to drive customers away.

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Too much fluff in Ryan coverage? Hardly

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2012, 11:15 AM Aug 14, 2012
2

The Ryan VP pick has injected some seriousness into otherwise silly presidential campaign coverage.

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Can humans talk on the phone and do anything else correctly?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2012, 10:52 AM Aug 14, 2012
3

Is there any remaining doubt that humans cannot do two things at once — specifically, driving and talking on the phone?

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The Pawlenty stakeout

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2012, 10:32 AM Aug 14, 2012
5

Multiply the fairly ridiculous energy on the possibility of getting a scoop that doesn’t matter to non-political reporters and those outside the Beltway, and you can figure out what resources might be left for serious reporting.

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