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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Bob Dylan’s world

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 24, 2013, 11:02 AM May 24, 2013
4

Is it true that Minnesota has only been mentioned five times in songs?

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Five by 8

The stuff we throw away (5×8 – 5/24/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 24, 2013, 7:06 AM May 24, 2013
9

Trashology in Duluth, behind school suspensions, after the fire in South St. Paul, the end of the apostrophe, and music for the locked-out soul.

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Sunday liquor sales: The little bill that can’t

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2013, 1:57 PM May 23, 2013
7

If government was all about the will of the people, you’d be able to buy booze on Sunday in Minnesota.

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The concealed carry muzzle

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2013, 1:13 PM May 23, 2013
4

Joe Blow has a concealed carry permit. If I were in Louisiana, that sentence could put me in jail.

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There’s Texas and then there’s everywhere else

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2013, 12:43 PM May 23, 2013
5

The migration to the south continues.

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Tornado damage via satellite

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2013, 11:25 AM May 23, 2013
0

NPR has just released a pretty neat app that shows the damage from the tornado in Oklahoma this week.

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Sabrina’s best day ever

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2013, 10:30 AM May 23, 2013
5

The instructions for Google’s Doodle contest was to illustrate your ‘best day ever.’

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Five by 8

Postcards from the security state (5×8 – 5/23/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2013, 7:08 AM May 23, 2013
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Show us your papers, the fallout from the vaccine scare, what Zach left behind, the Legacy debate, and Moorhead owners push back,

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God and the Oklahoma tornado

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2013, 2:45 PM May 22, 2013
25

It’s getting harder and harder to expect journalists to cover disasters without it leading to some sort of debate over religion.

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Enough with the Hiroshima atomic bomb comparisons

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2013, 1:20 PM May 22, 2013
6

What happened in Oklahoma City was real and tragic and on a scale that takes your breath away. But it does not in any fashion dwarf what happened in Hiroshima.

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Justices fume over MN Supreme Court ruling in sexual harassment case

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2013, 11:35 AM May 22, 2013
1

The Minnesota Supreme Court today rejected the argument that if an employer’s sexually explicit behavior is extended to both women and men in the workplace, it’s not sexual harassment under the Minnesota Human Rights Act.

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Five by 8

What happened in the basement? (5×8 – 5/22/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2013, 7:10 AM May 22, 2013
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Minneapolis and police department transparency, the people who go to work when a tornado hits, Timberwolves math, the new voice of NPR, and coffins the old-fashioned way.

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (5/21/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2013, 4:42 PM May 21, 2013
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The searching ends in Oklahoma, the politicians spin in Minnesota.

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Weather

If the tornado had hit MSP

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2013, 3:39 PM May 21, 2013
5

The weather service says the tornado’s path was 17 miles long and 1.3 miles wide.

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A 2018 Super Bowl for Minneapolis?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2013, 2:26 PM May 21, 2013
7

The NFL awards the 2016 Super Bowl to San Francisco.

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