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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for April 2012

Welna from Waseca to Washington

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 20, 2012, 12:30 PM Apr 20, 2012

NPR’s David Welna returns to Minnesota to assess where he’s been.

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Norway’s sense of justice

Eric Ringham April 20, 2012, 12:15 PM Apr 20, 2012
2

Anders Breivik benefits from a system he would destroy.

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Is it time for you to move?

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg April 20, 2012, 11:00 AM Apr 20, 2012
2

You might be better off living someplace else

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Five by 8

Stadium theater (5×8 – 4/20/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 20, 2012, 7:28 AM Apr 20, 2012
23

When the NFL plays hardball, why women settle for the money, caregivers and the Capitol, the death of the Mustang, and how to know what color to wear today.

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Levon Helm, 1940-2012

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2012, 2:38 PM Apr 19, 2012
1

‘All his friends were there,’ his guitarist, Larry Campbell said, ‘and it seemed like Levon was waiting for them.’

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2012, 12:40 PM Apr 19, 2012
9

For two minutes once a year, there are more important things than getting to where you’re going.

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The land of the STD

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2012, 11:50 AM Apr 19, 2012
3

If you write a blog long enough, eventually you find yourself writing the same thing again and again.

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Who needs a $1.9 million personal jet?

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2012, 10:55 AM Apr 19, 2012
1

Cirrus has a lot riding on the answer being, ‘lots of people.’

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Five by 8

Medard Prosper’s journey(5×8 – 4/19/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2012, 7:43 AM Apr 19, 2012
3

A story after death, the great flood of ’97, the end of St. Paul department stores, why there was no Pulitzer for fiction, and a Coney Island love letter.

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Weather

Poll: People want to know what local weatherpeople have to say about climate change

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 18, 2012, 2:42 PM Apr 18, 2012
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Most Americans — based on the sample size of 1,000 of them — apparently think that climate change has a role in most of the significant weather events of the last year.

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The hooliganism of hockey

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 18, 2012, 1:36 PM Apr 18, 2012
3

Hockey in the news is intersecting in a number of fascinating ways today.

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An anti-dad bias?

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 18, 2012, 11:14 AM Apr 18, 2012
23

Finally, someone pointed it out: Dads are portrayed as helpless creatures when it comes to the issue of parenting.

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Five by 8

A diagnostic tool for depression (5×8 – 4/18/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 18, 2012, 7:24 AM Apr 18, 2012
12

The biological markers of depression, Alzheimer’s aware, the ‘lottery curse,’ big hearts in Hawley, and more on Levon Helm.

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Levon Helm in final stages of cancer

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 17, 2012, 3:21 PM Apr 17, 2012
1

Levon Helm is dying.

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Surveys and trivia

Behind the best small town

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 17, 2012, 1:44 PM Apr 17, 2012
7

What makes a small town the best small town?

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