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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: University of Minnesota

Health · Sports

Detractors stay silent as Jerry Kill proved them wrong

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 8, 2014, 7:13 AM Dec 8, 2014
25

By all accounts, Jerry Kill is far too nice of a guy to say what must be said to the dunderheads in Minnesota who last year declared someone with an illness can’t be a college football coach. Read more →

Weather

Hey readers, how do you fix a wrecked bluff?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 20, 2014, 6:33 AM Jun 20, 2014
5

How do you fix the giant mudslide threatening to swallow Fairview Medical Center at the University of Minnesota? Read more →

A Green Line report card

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 19, 2014, 9:58 AM May 19, 2014
9

With less than a month before the official opening of the Green Line, street.mn’s David Levinson takes a look today at one particular stretch of the route: Washington Ave SE. Many of the problems he highlights, he notes, will be solved in time. The signals will be timed better and maybe pedestrians will start paying Read more →

Crime and Justice · Sports

Dinkytown Diary: The ‘blame game’

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 14, 2014, 6:27 AM Apr 14, 2014
16

As surprising as the University of Minnesota men’s hockey team’s defensive “no-show” was at Saturday night’s NCAA championship game, anyone could see the Dinkytown arrests and damage coming from a mile away. And the post-“riot” quarterbacking has been even more predictable.

And this is in a city that lost a championship game. Read more →

Five by 8

Achievement gap woes, a picture of hunger, and the man who won’t kiss his sister (5×8 – 2/19/14)

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 19, 2014, 7:29 AM Feb 19, 2014
4

Decisions facing parents of African American students, breaking the stereotype of hunger, Kiev is burning, the man who wouldn’t kiss his sister, and frozen Superiority. Read more →

Billy Bragg to lead U employee rally against health care proposal

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 24, 2013, 11:50 AM Sep 24, 2013
22

University of Minnesota employees seek the British music songwriter’s help. He says yes. Read more →

Five by 8

5 x 8: Can Jerry Kill be a coach?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 16, 2013, 7:00 AM Sep 16, 2013
18

To be imperfect in a world of perfect, a solution to what ails the Iron Range, how to find a kidney, what does America want for health care anyway, and the Replacements in Chicago. Read more →

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