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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for March 2012

Racism and the hoodie

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 23, 2012, 10:31 AM Mar 23, 2012
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The Trayvon Martin story — he’s the kid who got killed for no good reason in Florida — has reached the “I’ve got nothing left to write, so I’ll just write something stupid” phase that many national issues reach. The barometer for this is Geraldo Rivera, who blames the fact the kid was wearing a Read more →

Five by 8

Something for nothing (5×8 – 3/23/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 23, 2012, 7:28 AM Mar 23, 2012
5

Nerdy deeds done cheap, the power of a pink tutu, the butt sketch guy, cameras in the courtroom, and should the workplace be segregated?

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Motorcycles, scrambled eggs, and the ways we live forever

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 22, 2012, 1:42 PM Mar 22, 2012
15

An intangible benefit of writing the NewsCut blog and some other blogs I pen are the connections blogs can make between unrelated people.

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Tough talk on oil pipeline should have little effect

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 22, 2012, 12:32 PM Mar 22, 2012

If ever there was a presidential moment designed strictly for a campaign ad later in the year, this was it.

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The moment when your friends die in a drunk-driving crash

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 22, 2012, 10:33 AM Mar 22, 2012
5

One of every seven Minnesota drivers has a conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol. The number who actually drive drunk, no doubt, is much higher.

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Five by 8

Sex, booze, cars, and the Internet (5×8 – 3/22/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 22, 2012, 6:48 AM Mar 22, 2012
8

The value of the Internet, why drilling makes no difference on gas prices, the tax that quacks like a duck, Pomeranz exits, and why do four words from 50 years ago carry such meaning today?

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What happened in Glencoe?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2012, 3:55 PM Mar 21, 2012
5

As usual in the immediate aftermath of a plane crash, some of the initial facts and witness accounts don’t quite add up. That’s the case for the plane crash in Glencoe today that claimed three lives.

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Bach at 327

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2012, 3:14 PM Mar 21, 2012

And that’s really the thinnest of threads NewsCut needs to bring back an old favorite — the time Joshua Bell played as a street musician in the Washington Metro.

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Is Minnesota ready for barber shops on wheels?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2012, 1:59 PM Mar 21, 2012
3

Minnesota has a lot going for it, but it’s a barber shop backwater, at least when it comes to barber shops on wheels.

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Vigilante justice, the law, and the jury

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2012, 1:33 PM Mar 21, 2012
4

The hero of the movement to expand self defense didn’t need the law to protect him from prosecution. It had a grand jury to do that.

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Tears for Tebow

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2012, 12:05 PM Mar 21, 2012
12

Is Tim Tebow a victim because of his religion?

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Carless in Duluth

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2012, 11:11 AM Mar 21, 2012

If you can be carless in Duluth, you can be carless anywhere.

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In Onamia, nothing screams ‘fun’ like a bomb

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2012, 10:43 AM Mar 21, 2012
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A 23-year-old Onamia man wins today’s ‘say what?’ news award.

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Five by 8

Kids who kill (5×8- 3/21/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2012, 7:40 AM Mar 21, 2012
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Defining the line of holding kids responsible, the ‘ice out’ debate in Minnesota, the hidden Vietnam, pipe down for the pine trees, and that’s not Olive Garden; that’s an octopus!

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The prom and the porn star

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2012, 7:03 PM Mar 20, 2012
4

A tweeter claims he’s a Tartan High School senior trying to get a porn star to be his date for the prom.

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