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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Life

A snapshot from the real world

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2010, 2:26 PM Aug 26, 2010
1

I’ll admit it. I’m a sucker for United Way ads.

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Growing together? Maybe not.

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 25, 2010, 3:25 PM Aug 25, 2010

Spouses do not grow more alike over time, says a Michigan study that is based on data from Minnesota.

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Minnesota State Fair, New York Style

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2010, 4:39 PM Aug 20, 2010
4

In New York, a group of ex-pat Minnesotans will, instead, celebrate the State Fair in spirit, and dangerously fatty food.

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Hope

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 18, 2010, 12:17 PM Aug 18, 2010
1

Being a son of Massachusetts, it’s not in my DNA to say nice things about the New York Yankees, but the Yankees are doing the right thing this week with ‘Hope Week.’

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Pastor finds new way to praise after cancer steals his voice

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 16, 2010, 10:41 AM Aug 16, 2010

If your passion and mission in life requires a voice, what do you do when you lose it?

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Sturgis

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 10, 2010, 12:02 PM Aug 10, 2010
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Times change at the giant motorcycle rally.

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A Weekend in the Life of Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 26, 2010, 9:50 AM Jun 26, 2010
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The essence of a moment in Minnesota that you experience over the weekend.

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Photographic perspective

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 24, 2010, 4:07 PM Jun 24, 2010
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It’s a big, diverse, wonderful news world out there and I was reminded of this while browsing through the daily news photos from the Associated Press. Neither has anything to with the other. They just are.

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What’s right with us? The harmonica man

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 27, 2010, 9:44 AM Mar 27, 2010

A week of simply awful news had us searching for some decency among us.

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Pickup pulled from icy grave

edebruyn March 24, 2010, 11:09 AM Mar 24, 2010
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Fishermen on Lake Vermilion reeled in a lunker from Lake Vermilion the other day — a GMC pickup truck. A video shows the action.

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How has Facebook changed your life?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 3, 2010, 9:06 AM Mar 3, 2010
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Live-blogging this morning’s Midmorning conversation on social networking

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Embracing winter: One last day

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 28, 2010, 2:30 PM Feb 28, 2010

Ice-house neighborhoods disappear in Minnesota.

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Lifeline to summer

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 28, 2010, 8:04 AM Feb 28, 2010

No matter how hard we try to embrace winter, it overstays its welcome around March.

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A checkmark on the ‘bucket list’

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 27, 2010, 9:13 AM Jan 27, 2010
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A 100-year old woman gets her long-sought college degree.

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Stockholm syndrome in New Orleans

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 23, 2010, 3:26 PM Jan 23, 2010

Why Minnesota will never have the love affair with its NFL football team that New Orleans has with the Saints.

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