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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for November 2011

‘Lazy cop’ syndrome

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 19, 2011, 8:21 AM Nov 19, 2011
8

The more ‘non-lethal’ weapons police have, the greater the chance they’ll misuse them.

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Study: More kids blowing out knees

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 19, 2011, 8:07 AM Nov 19, 2011
2

The death of pick-up physical play and an increase in organized sports may be responsible.

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Show me your property tax bill

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 18, 2011, 1:35 PM Nov 18, 2011
31

If I said my property taxes went up $75, would that be a lot? What if I said they went up 3 percent?

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Surveys and trivia

Pies in the face

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 18, 2011, 12:45 PM Nov 18, 2011
1

The people over at Prairie Home Companion have now put up the video of last Saturday’s tribute to the late Tom Keith.

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Mailbag: The reading room

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 18, 2011, 10:49 AM Nov 18, 2011
4

Joe Plut’s reading room dedication.

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Five by 8

Adapt or die? (5×8 – 11/18/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 18, 2011, 7:22 AM Nov 18, 2011
26

The link between climate change and bad weather, who’s more popular than Aaron Rodgers, the drinking water debate, a Social Security tale of one Minnesota county, and everyday should be National Unfriend Day.

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Politics

Minnesota sells the good china

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 17, 2011, 1:38 PM Nov 17, 2011
6

The state gets a pile of cash for its tobacco settlement in exchange for two piles of cash later.

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Cities ’97 Sampler sells out again

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 17, 2011, 12:07 PM Nov 17, 2011
9

It didn’t take long for people to start selling the CD on E*Bay.

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When advertising offends

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 17, 2011, 12:00 PM Nov 17, 2011

An ad campaign using an image of the pope sets the advertising world abuzz.

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Five by 8

Sanctity v. Cents (5×8 – 11/17/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 17, 2011, 6:41 AM Nov 17, 2011
19

The morality of Thanksgiving shopping, coverage of today’s Occupy march, PETA vs. Super Mario, the undersea world of a mine pit, and why turkeys can’t have sex.

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Minnesota Independent closing

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 16, 2011, 4:50 PM Nov 16, 2011
3

The network of individual locally-targeted ‘Independent’ sites is being eliminated in favor of one big site.

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People doing good

People doing good: The pilots for wounded veterans

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 16, 2011, 1:56 PM Nov 16, 2011
1

Nobody blunders public relations like the Transportation Security Administration and some of the nation’s airlines.

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You Should Meet...

You Should Meet: Joe Plut

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 16, 2011, 11:00 AM Nov 16, 2011
11

Joe Plut was the original ‘mad hugger’ of Brainerd.

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Regional history

Why the Kensington Runestone is a fake

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 16, 2011, 10:15 AM Nov 16, 2011
10

Additional proof the Douglas County artifact was a practical joke.

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Five by 8

The things that stink (5×8 – 11/16/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 16, 2011, 7:41 AM Nov 16, 2011
10

Invasion of the stink bug, war toys for therapy, death of a Munchkin, what now Occupy, and the vanishing Minnesota native.

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