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Archives for September 2012

Five by 8

The myth of stadium economics in one picture (5×8 – 9/13/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 13, 2012, 7:30 AM Sep 13, 2012
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Baseball economics 101, science fiction meets science reality, the death of the ash tree, no outcry over $4 gasoline, and is it too soon for Christmas decorations?

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Even more Kluwe

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 12, 2012, 4:59 PM Sep 12, 2012

In case you haven’t gotten enough Chris Kluwe, NPR put him on the air this afternoon.

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Hey kid! Tuck in your shirt!

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 12, 2012, 2:42 PM Sep 12, 2012
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Fashion with a mid-life crisis.

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Can the emerald ash borer really be stopped?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 12, 2012, 1:58 PM Sep 12, 2012
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The efforts have been noble, but the fact is the emerald ash borer is expanding its territory.

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Kennedy honorees announced

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 12, 2012, 1:41 PM Sep 12, 2012
3 Comments

Buddy Guy is in. Finally.

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Chris Stevens up close

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 12, 2012, 12:28 PM Sep 12, 2012
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Chances are, most of us couldn’t name Chris Stevens as the ambassador to Libya before he was killed overnight.

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Five by 8

The First Amendment as a weapon (5×8 – 9/12/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 12, 2012, 7:40 AM Sep 12, 2012
15 Comments

When ‘art’ lights a fuse, should reporters stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, gay or nay in Wahpeton, time to ground flying history, and the civic stories of Northfield.

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Arts & Culture · People doing good

The USA one story at a time

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 11, 2012, 1:40 PM Sep 11, 2012
4 Comments

Five people, living together in a bus, are traveling the country for a year in search of people doing good things.

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The cartography of 9/11 New York

Paul TostoPaul Tosto September 11, 2012, 10:50 AM Sep 11, 2012

Maps built in the days after the 9/11 attacks helped emergency personnel understand the damage, the shifting rubble and the fires that continued to burn underground.

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Five by 8

Remember when? (5×8 – 9/11/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 11, 2012, 7:21 AM Sep 11, 2012
6 Comments

When is it time to move on, helping with horsepower in South Dakota, the gatherings between the whites and Dakota, why I secretly recorded my life, and even more BWCA videos.

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Pigs, the flu, and the gloom around them

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 10, 2012, 3:28 PM Sep 10, 2012
1 Comment

State officials resisted calls to close the swine barn at the State Fair. It appears they were right.

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Court: Police can keep cars of repeat drunk drivers

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 10, 2012, 2:28 PM Sep 10, 2012
3 Comments

The court ruled in the case of Matthew Nielsen, who was stopped by Minneapolis police in April 2011. He pleaded guilty to DWI, his fourth in two years.

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Weather

Look up, and watch humans change the weather

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 10, 2012, 11:55 AM Sep 10, 2012
8 Comments

For a short time today — too short to get a decent picture — the sky over Minnesota was wearing a pinstripe suit, thanks to the weather conditions that made obvious what is true all the time — there’s a highway over us.

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Five by 8

What makes a community? (5×8 – 9/10/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 10, 2012, 6:54 AM Sep 10, 2012
23 Comments

Does ‘community’ matter, the things we do to animals, ‘boom’ times create ‘bust’ people, are you in there, and the Kluwe chronicles.

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Picture of the day: The bridge

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 7, 2012, 4:47 PM Sep 7, 2012
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The floating of the new Hastings bridge.

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