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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for January 2011

Captain America fights suicide

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2011, 1:01 PM Jan 12, 2011
1

Is a comic book likely to do much to combat suicide?

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A thousand words: Hands

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2011, 12:36 PM Jan 12, 2011
1

Mark Kelly, Gabrielle Giffords’ husband, holds the congresswoman’s hand in her room at University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz.

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Live-blogging Midmorning: The gun issue

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2011, 9:56 AM Jan 12, 2011
10

How will the Arizona shootings impact public attitudes towards stricter, comprehensive gun control laws?

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Five by 8

Resilience (5×8 – 1/12/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2011, 6:50 AM Jan 12, 2011
2

Moving on after tragedies, religion is in the DNA, the last Nelson, the mess at the U, and overdoing birthdays.

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How NPR pronounced Gabrielle Giffords dead

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2011, 1:52 PM Jan 11, 2011
1

NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard has, apparently, spent the last couple of days trying to figure out how NPR allowed a false report onto the air that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had died.

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Politicians and the public

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2011, 1:39 PM Jan 11, 2011
4

As with most acts of terrorism, while the initial incident is horrible enough, the subsequent actions motivated by fear of a repeat can be damaging too.

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From tech to trivia

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2011, 11:33 AM Jan 11, 2011
5

The things that once made your dreams come true is now trivia. How’s that feel, kid?

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Should Minnesota’s nuclear moratorium be lifted?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2011, 10:07 AM Jan 11, 2011
24

A House committee passes a bill that would lift Minnesota’s ban on construction of new nuclear plants.

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Five by 8

Consoler in chief? It’s a comedian (5×8 – 1/11/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2011, 6:15 AM Jan 11, 2011

Matching rhetoric with reality, silence speaks with a loud voice, from the newsroom to comedy, what hunger feels like, and embracing winter in Mahtomedi.

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Assessing Arizona

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2011, 5:14 PM Jan 10, 2011
10

In the aftermath of the shootings in Arizona on Saturday, several of MPR’s social networking efforts have been collecting your reaction. Here are some of the more compelling comments we’ve received.

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NTSB finds fault with engine, pilot in Flying Cloud crash

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2011, 3:46 PM Jan 10, 2011

Two people died in the August 2009 crash.

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Death of a hero firefighter

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2011, 2:01 PM Jan 10, 2011

After the World Trade Center towers collapsed, Roy Chelsen spent weeks sifting through the wreckage. His friends say that’s what caused the cancer that killed him last night.

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The Legislature’s agenda

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2011, 12:21 PM Jan 10, 2011
1

Aside from jobs, term limits seems to be an emerging issue.

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What about the mentally ill?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2011, 10:45 AM Jan 10, 2011
22

There seems to be little question the shooter in Arizona was mentally ill. So why isn’t there more discussion about treatment for mentally ill people?

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Five by 8

Little miracles in big tragedies (5×8 – 1/10/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2011, 7:24 AM Jan 10, 2011
7

How often do people survive an attack on the brain, you are the editor, how depth begins with 140 characters, embracing winter or at least faking it, the death of Maj. Winters.

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