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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for September 2012

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The Northwest Angle to Key West

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2012, 5:36 PM Sep 28, 2012
4

Daniel Alvarez is living a life that can make people go chase their dreams.

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About that war

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2012, 12:27 PM Sep 28, 2012
12

We pause from our usual Friday activities (pretty much a combination of staring out the window and staring at the clock) to announce that there’s still a war in Afghanistan going on.

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Surveys and trivia

Viral video: The guy who makes it tough for everyone else

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2012, 12:04 PM Sep 28, 2012
5

Let’s just go ahead and add this to NewsCut’s growing list of people who make it rough for the rest of us, what with their creative ways to propose and all

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The great pickleball kerfuffle of 2012

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2012, 10:54 AM Sep 28, 2012
7

This is what trouble — big trouble — looks like in Woodbury.

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Five by 8

Murder by proxy (5×8 – 9/28/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2012, 7:12 AM Sep 28, 2012
6

Myths of workplace violence, where public education campaigns fail, a second chance to quiz alleged racist remarks, civil conversations, and it helps to have friends.

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Regional history

Why the RadioLab interview went wrong

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2012, 1:39 PM Sep 27, 2012
25

The Public Radio show, RadioLab, heard on MPR on Saturday afternoons, is getting significant pushback for its handling of an interview with a Hmong veteran in the Twin Cities on last weekend’s broadcast.

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The River Rats

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2012, 12:18 PM Sep 27, 2012
2

A few weeks ago, I profiled the Bus 52 team that is traveling the country, stopping in each state, and finding stories of people doing good work therein.

Today, they released one of the videos they produced while here: A group using water skiing to bring people together.

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Turn on the lights, the party’s over

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2012, 12:03 PM Sep 27, 2012

It’s last call for the Cottage View Drive-In in Cottage Grove tonight.

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Five by 8

When can gays speak for themselves? (5×8 – 9/27/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2012, 7:24 AM Sep 27, 2012
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The messaging in the same-sex marriage campaign, when people do good… and bad, an ungrateful nation, the Boogaard’s lawsuit, and dead or dormant.

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Payback time for a teen who raised money for others’ medical needs

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2012, 2:29 PM Sep 26, 2012
1

A British Columbia teen who has raised thousands of dollars for children’s medical charities is finding it difficult to get the money to come to Minnesota for treatment of her own health problems.

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Kluwe: Same-sex ban supporters trying to make slaves

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2012, 11:58 AM Sep 26, 2012
9

Vikings punter Chris Kluwe has leveled another broadside at supporters of the same-sex marriage ban on November’s ballot.

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The death of ‘Mrs. Bieber’

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2012, 11:25 AM Sep 26, 2012

Over the summer, this clip did well on the InterTubes.

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Weather

The drought up close

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2012, 10:43 AM Sep 26, 2012

Farmers are an interesting breed, indeed.

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Dispatches from Planet Democracy

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2012, 10:13 AM Sep 26, 2012
9

From the ‘free speech is complicated’ department.

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What people care about

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2012, 9:38 AM Sep 26, 2012

A report shows the difficulty mass media has in tailoring its news to a wide audience — the wide audience have vastly different opinions on what is news.

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