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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for December 2011

Five by 8

Walking drunk (5×8 – 12/28/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2011, 7:05 AM Dec 28, 2011
17

Is it safer to walk drunk than drive drunk, dispatches from the season of peace, the look of wasteful spending, the department of ‘what did he say?’, and the death of Cheetah.

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Reporter: ‘Why blogging ain’t reporting’

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2011, 3:30 PM Dec 27, 2011
6

It’s pretty unusual to see journalists sniping at each other across the country, but that’s happening today between reporter/blogger Christine Negroni and a blogger at the New York Times.

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The cozy deals between medical companies and doctors explored

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2011, 1:05 PM Dec 27, 2011
3

When it comes to writing research papers, doctors are the medical equivalent of journalists. In the ethics department, the two often couldn’t be further apart.

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Grocery shopping like a man

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2011, 11:24 AM Dec 27, 2011
10

Men are taking over grocery stores.

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Court upholds 50-year order for protection

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2011, 11:02 AM Dec 27, 2011

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled a 50-year order of protection against a man does not violate his First Amendment rights.

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Five by 8

The Christmas trees by the side of the road (5×8 – 12/27/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2011, 6:49 AM Dec 27, 2011
8

Dumping the tree, the pride of Longville, the brawl at the mall, the death of representative government, and everything you’ve heard about Ricky Rubio is true.

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The jobs we do

Working happy

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 26, 2011, 6:01 AM Dec 26, 2011

This is dedicated to you, especially those of you who love your jobs and aren’t afraid to let it show.

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The $180 sneakers

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 23, 2011, 2:41 PM Dec 23, 2011

Today’s news story that indicates the economy may be better than we’ve been led to believe.

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Time travel: Minnesota’s mental health treatment facility

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 23, 2011, 12:54 PM Dec 23, 2011
3

When you read the first two paragraphs in today’s Star Tribune story about the way Minnesota treated mentally ill patients in St. Peter, you may have to struggle to remember that this is the 21st century.

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Miscellany

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 23, 2011, 12:49 PM Dec 23, 2011

Your a kettle-ringer with one of those little tinny bells, trying to raise a few bucks when all of a sudden the big guns show up.

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The things you don’t need to know about Soyuz

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 23, 2011, 12:01 PM Dec 23, 2011

Why is a dash to the toilet the first item on the agenda of astronauts arriving at the space station?

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The things we’d do if we could

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 23, 2011, 10:55 AM Dec 23, 2011
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If you were younger and more likely to take the risks, what sort of things would you do?

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Five by 8

The same-sex marriage debate, one person at a time (5×8 – 12/23/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 23, 2011, 7:29 AM Dec 23, 2011
8

The reasons behind the vote, youth sports and the parents who ruin them, when soldiers come home, is America’s religious freedom under threat, and the Eichten countdown.

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Secrecy and the school board

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2011, 4:09 PM Dec 22, 2011
2

The best thing that ever happened to politicians may well be the ability to cite data practices law in Minnesota as the reason for their silence on controversial issues. Fewer laws, however well intended, have cast as much secrecy over the workings of government.

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Fall of a TV anchor

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2011, 1:54 PM Dec 22, 2011
2

The Mankato TV station anchor whose “slurred speech” during a newscast made her a YouTube hit has been arrested for drunk driving.

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