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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for December 2012

Happy Penguin New Year

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2012, 5:33 PM Dec 31, 2012
2 Comments

The world needs more penguiny people.

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The gay athlete, Torii Hunter, and quotes out of context

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2012, 2:55 PM Dec 31, 2012
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penly gay professional athletes are still rare and comments by former and once-beloved Minnesota Twin Torii Hunter might go a long way toward keeping it that way.

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Whatever happened to: The war?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2012, 2:15 PM Dec 31, 2012
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These faces never change. For more than 10 years, they’ve been bringing dead soldiers from Afghanistan to Arlington National Cemetery, accompanied by family members with these expressions.

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Whatever happened to: The guy who needed the liver transplant?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2012, 1:11 PM Dec 31, 2012
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Joel Beeson, a journalism professor in West Virginia, was all set to be the recipient of a new liver when the Cleveland Clinic lowered the top age of donors to 55, and his donor was older than that.

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Whatever happened to: The farmer wiped out by floods?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2012, 12:03 PM Dec 31, 2012
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A third of Dayna Burtness’ Laughing Loon Farm in Northfield was washed away. Whatever happened to her?

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Whatever happened to: The Costa Concordia

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2012, 11:50 AM Dec 31, 2012
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Whatever happened to the ship?

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Five by 8

Lights, camera, fracking (5×8 – 12/31/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2012, 7:32 AM Dec 31, 2012
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Fracking 101, in search of a proper punishment, the outdated Constitution, the Russian plane crash on video, and hangover cures.

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Open thread: I wish I had…

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2012, 8:14 AM Dec 28, 2012
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Write a sentence. Or write a paragraph. Or tell a full-blown story. Just end with this sentence.

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The art of ‘death elasticity’

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2012, 12:50 PM Dec 27, 2012
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The writer predicts more people — wealthy people, mind you — will die before Tuesday as a result of the enhanced tax benefits of doing so.

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The death of manners

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2012, 10:53 AM Dec 27, 2012
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Why don’t parents teach manners?

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Five by 8

When good stories don’t have a happy (yet) ending (5×8 – 12/27/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2012, 7:26 AM Dec 27, 2012
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Royce White and the quest for a role model, the candy-cigarette debate, reliving history in Mankato, should car seats be required on the airlines, and evaluating the 41st president.

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Glencoe air crash solved

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 26, 2012, 2:30 PM Dec 26, 2012
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The National Transportation Safety Board has completed an investigation into a March plane crash in Glencoe that killed three people.

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The gun owner next door

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 26, 2012, 1:10 PM Dec 26, 2012
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Do you have a right to know if your neighbors owns a gun?

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Timewasters: Minnesota stars

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 26, 2012, 12:53 PM Dec 26, 2012
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Stuck at work when so few others are? Try a little of this.

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The day in ‘may’

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 26, 2012, 12:01 PM Dec 26, 2012
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Today’s news stories with headlines that may or may not be true or come to pass.

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