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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for February 2010

Politics

Did the stimulus work?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2010, 12:55 PM Feb 23, 2010
4

When Democrats say the stimulus has worked, and Republicans say it hasn’t, both are just guessing.

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Tales from the pothole

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2010, 11:12 AM Feb 23, 2010

How one pothole brought people together.

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Weather

Back to the dikes

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2010, 9:54 AM Feb 23, 2010

The Red River Valley prepares for another flood

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Five by 8

Five at 8 – 2/23/10: The new 60

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2010, 7:35 AM Feb 23, 2010
6

Bipartisanship makes a rare appearance, YouTube and the college application, firing people for a living, and what’s in household dust that you don’t want to know about?

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Minnesota and marriage

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2010, 5:46 PM Feb 22, 2010
6

The same-sex marriage issue returned to the Capitol on Monday.

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Patching potholes with people power

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2010, 3:12 PM Feb 22, 2010
3

Driving in the state right now is something only a front-end realignment shop could love.

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Star Tribune Web site serving damaging virus

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2010, 1:08 PM Feb 22, 2010
5

Malware in an online ad apparently is responsible for infecting computers.

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One woman’s hero…

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2010, 12:45 PM Feb 22, 2010
1

The daughter of the man who flew his airplane into an IRS office in Austin last week is hailing her father as a hero.

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Caption contest: Pawlenty and Obama

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2010, 12:27 PM Feb 22, 2010
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty and President Barack Obama came glass-to-glass during a dinner at the White House on Sunday.

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Same-sex marriage issue resurfaces at Capitol

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2010, 12:03 PM Feb 22, 2010

A hearing is scheduled today for a bill that would recognize same-sex marriages from other states.

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Five by 8

Five at 8 – 2/22/10: Still the King of the Blues?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2010, 7:31 AM Feb 22, 2010

B.B. King’s concert in Minneapolis upstaged, Ground Zero is a national disgrace, how singing repairs the brain, and the curse of curling.

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God and the Minnesota state budget

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 21, 2010, 11:01 AM Feb 21, 2010
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty says God should be part of political discussions. Is there religious direction to the budget debate?

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‘It’s all in the syrup, baby’

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 20, 2010, 6:21 AM Feb 20, 2010
2

Hannah Teter’s story makes the rest of us look in the mirror.

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The Great Internet Wasteland

Than Tibbetts February 19, 2010, 3:55 PM Feb 19, 2010
2

What do you get when you combine public radio and Chatroulette? A strange, fascinating interview.

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Five by 8

Five at 8 – 2/19/10: A tour of headlines

kenpaulman February 19, 2010, 8:09 AM Feb 19, 2010

Today’s tour of headlines reveals fire, drowning, regional identity, Tiger Woods, and wolves.

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