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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for January 2013

Five by 8

When the sheriff is the law(5×8 – 1/16/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2013, 6:53 AM Jan 16, 2013
15

Picking which laws to enforce, where the women are assaulted, the $28,000 diet, the Saint Paul exodus, and the sports kids of the year who know a thing or two about brotherhood.

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Weather

Not embracing winter: The snowman assassin

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2013, 2:32 PM Jan 15, 2013
1

There’s something oddly warming about watching the slow-motion destruction of snowmen.

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Study: Bicyclists, car drivers share blame for accidents

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2013, 1:55 PM Jan 15, 2013
2

There could be a break in the ongoing debate between bicyclists and vehicle drivers.

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A clear case of pedophobia

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2013, 1:54 PM Jan 15, 2013
2

Is fear of young children a legitimate phobia or a good reason to try to shake down a school district? We’re about to find out.

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China’s pollution from space

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2013, 12:00 PM Jan 15, 2013
3

Can it affect the U.S.? Yes, in about five days according to one expert.

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Healing through music in Newtown

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2013, 11:02 AM Jan 15, 2013
0

A month after the horrific shooting in Connecticut, two musicians have done what they could do to help the town.

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Five by 8

Math as a team sport (5×8 – 1/15/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2013, 7:32 AM Jan 15, 2013
4

When math kids can’t pass the math test, it was four years ago today on the Hudson, I am an African man, welcoming strangers, and second chances.

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (audio) – 1/14/13

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 4:36 PM Jan 14, 2013
1

Lance Armstrong is sorry, but we’re not sure for what. The debt-limit debate, the end of same-day voter registration in Wisconsin and do chimpanzees have a human style of fairness?

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NASA record-holder signs off.

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 2:18 PM Jan 14, 2013
1

If any humans orbiting the earth want to talk to the Roseville (by way of Bemidji) native Paul Dye in the future, they’ll have to call him at home.

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A picture worth one word

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 2:02 PM Jan 14, 2013
5

You’d have to be in a fairly high state of denial not to see that this is a cover intending to make a guy look like a mob boss.

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Even more Public Radio humor

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 12:43 PM Jan 14, 2013
3

Oh, those crazy classical music people.

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A medal for Mr. Huschle

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 12:10 PM Jan 14, 2013
1

Seventy years is a heck of a long time to wait for a medal you deserved from the U.S. military.

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Youngest survivor on Schindler’s List dies

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 11:51 AM Jan 14, 2013
2

Leon Leyson ended up teaching high school in Los Angeles for 39 years, and rarely mentioned his story to anyone.

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Weather

Embracing winter: Ski music

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 11:41 AM Jan 14, 2013
0

Why oh why couldn’t this be Minnesota?

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Five by 8

What a seven-year-old can do (5×8 – 1/14/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 7:34 AM Jan 14, 2013
6

Long Lost? No problem. The trafficking of our little girls, the man Peter Linnerooth couldn’t help, when things aren’t what they seem, and coming together on climate.

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