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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for November 2013

A time to be thankful for people who stand for something

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 27, 2013, 3:09 PM Nov 27, 2013
5

Walmart employees who protest their wages will probably lose their jobs. That seems to be just fine with a lot of people who take these sorts of things personally Read more →

Why you’re free to wear a duck on your head this Thanksgiving

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 27, 2013, 1:19 PM Nov 27, 2013
2

Take heart, Minnesota: There is no law preventing you from wearing a duck on your head. Read more →

Minnesota Supreme Court issues a $1 million definition of ‘community’

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 27, 2013, 11:35 AM Nov 27, 2013
0

The Court said a business owner is not entitled to any more money from Dakota County than he was given when his property was taken by eminent domain, and it did so largely on this question: What is a “community?” Read more →

And then GoldieBlox and the Beastie Boys lived happily ever after

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 27, 2013, 11:33 AM Nov 27, 2013
1

GoldieBlox, the toy company that wants to inspire girls toward engineering and science, can apparently tell when the tide turns.
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Five by 8

Six years of NewsCut (5×8-11/27/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 27, 2013, 7:27 AM Nov 27, 2013
16

This will probably be one of the last posts until next week, but just wanted to point out that Saturday is the 6th birthday of NewsCut, which officially launched on Nov. 30, 2007. I had actually been writing it since that October (those posts are available online) while the bosses evaluated whether this idea really Read more →

Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob – 11/26/13

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 26, 2013, 5:49 PM Nov 26, 2013
0

Should a business owner’s religion determine an employee’s health care benefits, guns at the state Capitol, what’s Thanksgiving without a stay at the airport, and a case in Mankato raises this question: Can anyone be foster parents? Read more →

Toy company behaving like corporate bully in Super Bowl ad contest

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 26, 2013, 1:16 PM Nov 26, 2013
6

GoldieBlox isn’t going to need to win the free Super Bowl commercial competition it’s in with the Locally Laid egg farm in Wrenshall, Minn. It’s doing just fine getting publicity thanks to its viral video. Read more →

Weather

Duluth TV audience demands to see its news anchors freeze like everyone else

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 26, 2013, 12:11 PM Nov 26, 2013
4

If The Daily Show can do it, perhaps there’s no reason why a Duluth TV station can’t fake the news by standing in front of a “green screen” and pretending to be somewhere they’re not. Read more →

The scourge of the audience-submitted photo

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 26, 2013, 11:16 AM Nov 26, 2013
0

The fastest-disappearing job in journalism is the photographer and this is the time of the year when it shows.
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Five by 8

When cities stink, Gavin’s belt, and an old man with an older gun (5×8-11/26/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 26, 2013, 7:47 AM Nov 26, 2013
8

The nose doesn’t lie in South St. Paul/Newport, Gavin’s belt to help battle a tumor, an old man with an older gun, teaching homeless kids, and the case against punting. Read more →

Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob – 11/25/13

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 25, 2013, 4:42 PM Nov 25, 2013
1

We may never know why Adam Lanza killed Connecticut students, Trevino gets 27 years in killing of his wife, Obama pushes back against critics of the Iran nuclear deal, why there’s no Minnesota steel in the new Vikings stadium, and how a person taught himself to fly using someone else’s airplane — without permission. Read more →

How a St. Paul-born ‘fly girl’ changed history

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 25, 2013, 1:08 PM Nov 25, 2013
3

Dora Dougherty Strother McKeown has died. The Saint Paul native was the first woman to fly a B-29 Superfortress during World War II because the men were afraid to. Read more →

A little hope for ‘the saddest square block in the upper Midwest’

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 25, 2013, 12:47 PM Nov 25, 2013
6

The new owner of Block E is going to give renovating the eyesore in downtown Minneapolis a go, with no public money, apparently. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Read this before you buy those spiffy tail light covers

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 25, 2013, 11:18 AM Nov 25, 2013
1

If you’re going to drive drunk, don’t buy these types of things to jazz up your truck. A Meeker County man today lost his attempt to have his DUI license revocation thrown out. His tail light covers did him in. Joseph Hoekstra was driving his pickup truck in December 2011 when state trooper Casey Meagher, Read more →

Five by 8

Minnesota superiority, kids who stick up for bullied kids, and a woman’s hockey history in St. Cloud (5×8 – 11/25/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 25, 2013, 7:01 AM Nov 25, 2013
9

Why Minnesota works and Wisconsin doesn’t, the band of brothers who stick up for a first-grader, the woman behind the hockey microphone, the B-17 flyover in Green Bay, and why Dilbert’s creator wanted his father to die. Read more →

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