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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for July 2010

Beaver fever in Bemidji

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 4, 2010, 2:49 PM Jul 4, 2010

A Beaver statue promotion in Bemidji seemed innocent enough until one artist rolled out her version.

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NPR and the long goodbye

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 3, 2010, 11:11 AM Jul 3, 2010
1

Weekend Edition left an important element out of its story of a man’s struggle with his wife’s Alzheimer’s.

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What the Founding Fathers knew

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 3, 2010, 7:55 AM Jul 3, 2010
1

Of all the interesting programming on Minnesota Public Radio this week, David Rubenstein’s story of the Declaration of Independence has to be the near the top of the list.

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Why mow medians?

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 2, 2010, 4:56 PM Jul 2, 2010
7

Would it bother you if wildflowers and tall grass sprouted along the state’s highways?

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On patriotism

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 2, 2010, 1:42 PM Jul 2, 2010
6

But here’s the apparent takeaway from Pew’s latest poll: The more patriotic you are, the more likely you are to be critical of the government.

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The nurses react

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 2, 2010, 11:59 AM Jul 2, 2010
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The tentative agreement between some Twin Cities hospitals and nurses will have little trouble when it goes to the rank-and-file for a vote next week, if some of the responses we’ve been getting from nurses is any indication.

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Measuring desperation

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 2, 2010, 10:07 AM Jul 2, 2010

How can the unemployment rate go down, when the number of people losing their jobs is going up?

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Five by 8

Five by 8 – 7/2/10: Former Gopher now living in desperate times

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 2, 2010, 7:21 AM Jul 2, 2010
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How an NBA player lost it all, Supreme Court nominees and Minnesota’s obsession with popular culture, flying while standing, life without a high school in Wadena, and why Canby celebrates Ziad Tedeini.

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Hospital-nurses scorecard

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 1, 2010, 5:08 PM Jul 1, 2010
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Who won and lost with the final deal that’s been negotiated between area nurses and hospitals?

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Live with BP

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 1, 2010, 2:31 PM Jul 1, 2010
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The PBS NewsHour presented a Q&A with the new public face of BP — Bob Dudley. Ray Suarez hosted and people have submitted some tough questions.

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Why the Wetterling case is newsworthy

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 1, 2010, 12:50 PM Jul 1, 2010
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What makes Jacob Wetterling’s situation newsworthy is that stranger abductions in Minnesota almost never happen. And if it turns out a neighbor was involved in Wetterling’s disappearance, it didn’t happen to him, either.

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Surveys and trivia

Man loses horse race

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 1, 2010, 11:45 AM Jul 1, 2010

The horse — Peopleton Brook — went off at 1-to-9 odds, which suggests that perhaps someone bet on the human.

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Next up: The Hastings Bridge

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 1, 2010, 11:23 AM Jul 1, 2010

On a day on which it opened the new Wakota Bridge span between Newport and South St. Paul, the Minnesota Department of Transportation selected Lunda/Ames to build the replacement of the Highway 61 bridge in Hastings.

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Baseball karma

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 1, 2010, 11:14 AM Jul 1, 2010

A proper penalty is extracted for a baseball fan using a cellphone at the ballpark./

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Five by 8

Five by 8 – 7/1/10: A right to surf

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 1, 2010, 6:39 AM Jul 1, 2010
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Is access to the Internet a right, the guide to buying new gadgets, what do hydrangeas say about us, why the suburbs can’t dare to be different, and the best job in the Twin Cities is on two wheels.

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