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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Disasters

The lessons of disaster

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 22, 2010, 4:45 PM Jun 22, 2010
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There are a few sensational paragraphs of copy in the decision of U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman’s order today lifting the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

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How to recover from a disaster

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 21, 2010, 12:05 PM Jun 21, 2010
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MPR’s Nikki Tundel provides a video profile of the Zeller family.

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Dramatic tornado video

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 21, 2010, 10:42 AM Jun 21, 2010
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There have been a number of videos of last week’s tornadoes posted to the Internet, but few are as compelling as this one

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Let them eat oil?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 20, 2010, 8:35 AM Jun 20, 2010

Tony Hayward, the man deposed last week as the public face of the BP oil spill, is — it turns out — still the public face of the BP oil spill. On his first day off since the April explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, Hayward went to the yacht races yesterday.

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Spill the one

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 19, 2010, 1:50 PM Jun 19, 2010

After about two months, our short attention span starts to wander from most big news stories. But the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is different.

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Your favorite Tony Hayward moment

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 18, 2010, 1:23 PM Jun 18, 2010

Tony Hayward, the face of the BP oil disaster, may have gotten the kiss from the oil company.

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Weather

What are the odds?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 18, 2010, 9:51 AM Jun 18, 2010
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There’s a lot of open space in rural Minnesota, and yet tornados struck buildings where few exist yesterday.

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The oil timeline

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 16, 2010, 12:42 PM Jun 16, 2010

PBS Newshour has put a nice video timeline together chronicling the response to the Gulf oil disaster.

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iRescuing the birds

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 15, 2010, 12:28 PM Jun 15, 2010
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Oil-soaked birds? There’s an app for that.

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Songs in the key of oil

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 11, 2010, 4:55 PM Jun 11, 2010
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The oil disaster has been very, very good for comedy.

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There’s more than one leak in the Gulf.

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 8, 2010, 3:21 PM Jun 8, 2010
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An environmental group says there’s another oil leak from an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Search term ethics

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 8, 2010, 11:38 AM Jun 8, 2010
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BP buys search terms on Google and Yahoo. So what?

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The day in oil

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 6, 2010, 8:40 AM Jun 6, 2010

Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore is out with a new editorial video.

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Fresh Eye on the Radio: Life imitates bad art

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 4, 2010, 4:51 PM Jun 4, 2010

If the grotesque images of helpless birds looking like so many chocolate Easter bunnies isn’t enough to scream ‘disaster’ in the Gulf of Mexico, maybe this is: The BP oil disaster is reminding me of a Steven Seagal movie.

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New page in BP ad campaign

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 4, 2010, 1:45 PM Jun 4, 2010
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BP has started a new ad campaign on television, to try to repair its image.

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