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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for May 2009

War

Memorial Day: The story behind the picture

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2009, 10:01 PM May 22, 2009
14

The story behind a picture I’ve carried in my wallet for 18 years has finally been revealed.

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Regional history

Memorial Day: PTSD

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2009, 9:41 PM May 22, 2009
1

PTSD is a terrible, awful mental illness which this vet hid successfully for many years.

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Regional history

Memorial Day: Glenn Knoblauch

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2009, 4:51 PM May 22, 2009

There was another side to Holly Cairns’ grandfather that she never knew.

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Listening to the whole story

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2009, 3:44 PM May 22, 2009
2

Will any of the analysts talk about the substance of Barack Obama’s and Dick Cheney’s Thursday speeches?

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Half full/Half empty (cont’d)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2009, 12:01 PM May 22, 2009
2

If the state shed 9.500 jobs last month, how come 13,389 more people had them than were working in March?

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Six degrees of medical marijuana

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2009, 11:40 AM May 22, 2009
4

On Tim Pawlenty new liaison to the Legislature.

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Five at 8 – May 22, 2009

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2009, 7:53 AM May 22, 2009
1

Leaving a religion and a life behind, the national debt road trip, the social media bible, the best places to work for public service, Mark Madsen’s Pelosi-CIA analysis.

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Send your Memorial Day tributes

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2009, 7:18 AM May 22, 2009
2

Send your stories about the people in your family who should be honored on Memorial Day.

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Perfectly Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2009, 4:42 PM May 21, 2009
2

The closer one gets to the Minnesota Capitol and the exhausting politics therein, I find, the harder it is to remember that Minnesota is still a heck of a place to live.

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Forget swine flu, there’s urine in the pool!

bingrassia May 21, 2009, 12:06 PM May 21, 2009
7

Have you heard that one in five people admit to peeing in the pool? There’s a lot more to this story if you look beneath the waterline…

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Five at 8: May 21, 2009

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2009, 8:04 AM May 21, 2009
6

Crooks, cheats, liars and the federal stimulus; teacher licenses, 1908 style; Patrick Swayze insists he’s not dead; the slippery slope from fear to panic and the Klingon dictionary.

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Religious life in the Obama era

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 20, 2009, 7:49 PM May 20, 2009
2

A talk with President Obama’s ‘pastor-in-chief’

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Credit card regs

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 20, 2009, 4:38 PM May 20, 2009
2

Perhaps the best consumer protection for credit card customers is a pair of scissors.

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Editorial assessments on the budget: Lose-lose

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 20, 2009, 3:37 PM May 20, 2009
2

The DFL legislators, the Republican minority and Gov. Tim Pawlenty all received failing grades in post-session editorials on Wednesday.

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The jobs we do

The bookstore in the manure tank

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 20, 2009, 1:43 PM May 20, 2009
5

What would lead a couple to turn 12 buildings on the farm in Wisconsin into the world’s largest bookstore?

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