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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for August 2011

Five by 8

Congressional inspiration (5×8 – 8/2/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 2, 2011, 7:45 AM Aug 2, 2011
9

Giffords returns to Congress, Minnesota as an ATM, how to bully a teacher, the inside story of the death of bin Laden, and your dinner shouldn’t dance.

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Weather

Storm video

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 1, 2011, 5:20 PM Aug 1, 2011
1

A few videos have surfaced documenting today’s monsoon that hit the Twin Cities.

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What MTV says about us

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 1, 2011, 3:33 PM Aug 1, 2011
3

How today’s commemoration of MTV missed the point.

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On Randy Moss

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 1, 2011, 2:32 PM Aug 1, 2011
2

Randy Moss played on teams that went 15-1 and 16-0 and still came up empty for Super Bowl championships.

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Why do cops hate cameras?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 1, 2011, 2:22 PM Aug 1, 2011
4

Yet another case of police ordering someone to stop videotaping them has surfaced.

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Minnesota’s eugenics past

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 1, 2011, 1:05 PM Aug 1, 2011
3

Few aspects of U.S. history have the ability to make a rational 2011 person ask ‘what were they thinking?’ than America’s eugenics laws.

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Court: School board shouldn’t have spent money campaigning for referendum passage

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 1, 2011, 12:17 PM Aug 1, 2011
3

School boards can spend money to inform voters about issues, but it’s a fine line between providing information and politicking.

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A perilous world for a retweeting journalist

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 1, 2011, 11:31 AM Aug 1, 2011
3

Twitter’s use by mainstream media comes with journalistic growing pains.

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Farewell, ‘lady of the house’

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 1, 2011, 10:30 AM Aug 1, 2011
9

The Nielsen company finally ditches the ‘housewife.’

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Five by 8

Kicking the can to the committee (5×8 – 8/1/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 1, 2011, 7:02 AM Aug 1, 2011
9

An old solution surfaces in Washington, Dakota’s water world, the mansion by the lake, the blue screen of matrimonial death, and juggling Minnesota.

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