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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

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Dead or alive

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 25, 2012, 12:14 PM Oct 25, 2012
1

Google can be an unforgiven master for people who do online journalism.

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E pluribus whatever

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 22, 2012, 2:52 PM Oct 22, 2012
12

The wrong symbol of the nation is being used at the presidential debates.

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On the things we all have in common

Nate Minor October 18, 2012, 1:47 PM Oct 18, 2012

Comfort zones feel good. But getting outside of them can be even better — once you get past your original hesitation.

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The message that never seems to get through

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 16, 2012, 2:54 PM Oct 16, 2012
2

A woman takes her own life, a month after she made a YouTube video about bullying.

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Big deer and big government

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 15, 2012, 12:19 PM Oct 15, 2012
3

At a Fargo radio station, a woman calls in to ask that deer crossings be moved on the highway.

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Don’t mess with NoDak

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 11, 2012, 11:21 AM Oct 11, 2012
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North Dakotans don’t like having people make fun of their state.

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The problems with crosswalks

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 10, 2012, 12:12 PM Oct 10, 2012
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Crosswalk designs seem to invite pedestrian accidents. How could they be changed?

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The skydive live

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 9, 2012, 11:50 AM Oct 9, 2012
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I’m not sure I can look, but if you can stand the possibility that skydiver Felix Baumgartner won’t survive his attempt at the highest, fastest free fall in history, then here is live coverage.

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Barry Commoner, 1917-2012

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 1, 2012, 3:42 PM Oct 1, 2012

Commoner, 95, was one of the founders of the ecology movement. On the advent of the first Earth Day in 1970, Time magazine called him the Paul Revere of Ecology.

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The River Rats

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2012, 12:18 PM Sep 27, 2012
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A few weeks ago, I profiled the Bus 52 team that is traveling the country, stopping in each state, and finding stories of people doing good work therein.

Today, they released one of the videos they produced while here: A group using water skiing to bring people together.

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Kluwe: Same-sex ban supporters trying to make slaves

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2012, 11:58 AM Sep 26, 2012
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Vikings punter Chris Kluwe has leveled another broadside at supporters of the same-sex marriage ban on November’s ballot.

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The death of ‘Mrs. Bieber’

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2012, 11:25 AM Sep 26, 2012

Over the summer, this clip did well on the InterTubes.

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Dispatches from Planet Democracy

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2012, 10:13 AM Sep 26, 2012
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From the ‘free speech is complicated’ department.

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Raising the Hastings Bridge

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 24, 2012, 11:07 AM Sep 24, 2012

Nice time-lapse video from MnDOT as construction crews raise the center span of the new Hastings bridge.

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A riverboat returns to Saint Paul

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 21, 2012, 12:56 PM Sep 21, 2012

The largest riverboat ever made makes its first stop in Saint Paul in more than four years.

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