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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for June 2008

St. Paul stack to be blown up

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 23, 2008, 2:28 PM Jun 23, 2008
8

Say goodbye to an icon of the St. Paul skyline.

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Without pregnancy pact, what’s the teen birth story?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 23, 2008, 2:18 PM Jun 23, 2008
1

If it turns out there was no pact among Gloucester, Mass. teens to get pregnant, is there still a story there that doesn’t exist in Minnesota, too?

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KSTP and the News Council

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 23, 2008, 2:15 PM Jun 23, 2008
1

Why wasn’t KSTP at a News Council meeting last week when one of its stories was dissected?

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Broken levees let racially-charged rhetoric flow

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 23, 2008, 11:29 AM Jun 23, 2008
22

Some in the Midwest say flood victims here are more self-reliant than their Hurricane Katrina cousins.

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George Carlin, 1937-2008

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 23, 2008, 7:31 AM Jun 23, 2008
8

From brash young comic to elderly curmudgeon.

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The lost tribe revealed

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 22, 2008, 10:36 PM Jun 22, 2008

A picture of a lost tribe in the Amazon isn’t a hoax, per se. But it’s not what Brazilian authorities said it was, either.

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Another happy ending

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 22, 2008, 10:02 PM Jun 22, 2008
1

An autistic man, missing in the Wisconsin woods for nearly a week, has been found alive.

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Union issues emerging in Senate races

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 22, 2008, 9:07 AM Jun 22, 2008
1

For entertainment value alone, few political ads recently can rival theTV spots against the Employee Free Choice Act.

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And now the news…

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 20, 2008, 6:02 PM Jun 20, 2008
4

It’s worth remembering that sometimes the big news is a kid went to the candy store.

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A sign of the times

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 20, 2008, 2:52 PM Jun 20, 2008
2

There’s an occasional obvious silliness to the regulation requiring businesses to post “no guns allowed” signs.

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The News Cut crop report

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 20, 2008, 2:43 PM Jun 20, 2008
2

The knee knows all.

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Mourning in America

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 20, 2008, 9:17 AM Jun 20, 2008
5

A week later, perhaps it’s a good time to take another look at the reaction to Tim Russert’s death. Perhaps not.

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Live-blogging McCain: The forum

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 19, 2008, 7:02 PM Jun 19, 2008
4

A campaign notebook from the town hall forum in St. Paul.

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Blogging McCain – The questions from the uninvited

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 19, 2008, 6:48 PM Jun 19, 2008
1

What questions would you ask if you were invited to the McCain forum.

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Blogging McCain: The crowd

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 19, 2008, 6:36 PM Jun 19, 2008
10

A snapshot of the crowd lining up suggests there are two Minnesotas.

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