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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for January 2013

Blake Cognata dead at 17

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2013, 5:20 PM Jan 12, 2013
1

Blake Cognata, the New York high schooler who was surprised earlier this week by a call from Minnesota Viking star Adrian Peterson,has died of cancer.

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (audio) – 1/11/13

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 4:48 PM Jan 11, 2013
2

The U of M looks for more dough, guns that won’t shoot unless you own it, and the weird things we’re doing now because we’re so afraid of the flu.

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Choir comedy

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 4:35 PM Jan 11, 2013
1

More over, football players, the choir kids are the new cool, at least in Woodbury.

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Dumbest press release of the week

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 3:35 PM Jan 11, 2013
6

We get a lot of press releases e-mailed to us during the course of a week, 99.9 percent of which end up in the trash.

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The moon up close

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 1:55 PM Jan 11, 2013
1

NASA’s just-released video is cool enough to almost make you remember when the moon was a mysterious place that could make you want to learn more about it.

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Comedy and hockey

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 1:20 PM Jan 11, 2013
1

Sure, it’s good news the National Hockey League lockout is over. But it’s bad news for comedy.

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Fleet Farm takes on gun control

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 10:55 AM Jan 11, 2013
55

A lot of businesses don’t like to get into political fights and alienate any segment — even a minor segment — of their customers. Fleet Farm isn’t one of them.

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Five by 8

Flu season symptoms: Sniffles, body aches, and finger pointing (5×8 – 1/11/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 7:15 AM Jan 11, 2013
5

Blame the media flu season begins, who stole Richard Landers, the legend of Flight 90, when the phone call comes, and fun in coffee shops with old men.

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (audio) – 1/10/13

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2013, 4:41 PM Jan 10, 2013
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A move to limit constitutional amendments, another school shooting, Junior Seau’s brain, stalking a girlfriend in Cold Spring, why Mary thinks less of Cory Booker, and strange things you say when you get a concussion.

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Flu: ‘It’s important to keep this in perspective’

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2013, 3:40 PM Jan 10, 2013
4

It’s a bad year for the flu, but it’s not worth panicking over.

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Surveys and trivia

Is the Twin Cities losing its ‘gay greatness?’

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2013, 3:28 PM Jan 10, 2013
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Just two months after it led the state in rejecting the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, Advocate.com has dropped the Twin Cities ranking for ‘gayest cities in America.’

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Follow-up: Blake Cognata

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2013, 2:55 PM Jan 10, 2013
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Here’s a face and a voice at the center of a story about Adrian Peterson this week.

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More evidence: Football is killing some of its players

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2013, 1:57 PM Jan 10, 2013
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ESPN/ABC reports that football star Junior Seau’s brain had Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease that can lead to dementia, memory loss and depression.

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Weather

The red wave

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2013, 1:16 PM Jan 10, 2013
2

What on earth is happening to you, Australia?

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Study: 1 of 8 teens thinks of suicide

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2013, 11:57 AM Jan 10, 2013
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Quite often, the message conveyed in suicide prevention is that if you ask for help, things will get better. That’s not always the case, however. A study released this week shows more than half of the young people who planned, thought of, or attempted to kill themselves had received at least some treatment. Nearly 1,400 Read more →

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