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A question of morality (5×8 – 1/25/13)

Bob Collins January 25, 2013, 7:21 AM Jan 25, 2013

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Maple Grove hockey and the culture that makes kids do things, the highlight of Mr. Avohou’s job search, what cold looks like, bad lip reading the inauguration, and poor rich guys.

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (audio) – 1/24/13

Bob Collins January 24, 2013, 4:53 PM Jan 24, 2013

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Sen. Kerry’s confirmation, why free speech is being restricted at the Super Bowl, has the flu season peaked, Rhode Island votes on same-sex marriage, and why the cool people dig winter.

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Airline to move headquarters to state with a little life left in it

Bob Collins January 24, 2013, 4:12 PM Jan 24, 2013

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It was the battle of the perceived business-friendly state vs. the perceived business-unfriendly state today. And the business unfriendly state won.

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Weather

Science and cold weather

Bob Collins January 24, 2013, 2:43 PM Jan 24, 2013

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If summer is so great around here, where are all the videos of the cool science experiments you can do with it?

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Poll: Only a matter of time before same-sex marriage is legal in MN

Bob Collins January 24, 2013, 1:47 PM Jan 24, 2013

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The polling firm, Public Policy Polling, is out with a new poll, saying if same-sex marriage were on next year’s ballot, ‘it would probably pass.’

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NASA: Global temperature increase ‘assured’

Bob Collins January 24, 2013, 11:56 AM Jan 24, 2013

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For the few people who still need proof the planet is warming, NASA is complying today.

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Weather

Ya, sure, we don’t care about the cold

Bob Collins January 24, 2013, 10:50 AM Jan 24, 2013

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It was probably great for the Minnesota ‘brand’ that CBS waited until today — when the cold wave hit the East Coast — to run a national piece on last week’s pond hockey tournament in Minneapolis, thus reinforcing the myth that we don’t even notice such trivial things as subzero temperatures.

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Five by 8

Climate change and the backyard hockey rink (5×8 – 1/24/13)

Bob Collins January 24, 2013, 7:29 AM Jan 24, 2013

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Tracking science with hockey, in praise of the curmudgeon, the day in guns, why engineers rock, and when Ricky Rubio isn’t happy.

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (audio) – 1/23/13

Bob Collins January 23, 2013, 4:35 PM Jan 23, 2013

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Women in combat, Hillary Clinton takes on the Republicans in Congress, guns in college, no smoking at the fair and is Royce White a hero to those with mental illness?

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Gilda lives

Bob Collins January 23, 2013, 2:15 PM Jan 23, 2013

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The Wisconsin people who were going to wipe Gilda Radner’s name from the cancer support center named in her honor have come to their senses.

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The return of Royce

Bob Collins January 23, 2013, 1:22 PM Jan 23, 2013

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Royce White, the former Mr. Basketball in Minnesota whose struggles with mental illness have kept him from playing for the only NBA team willing to take a chance on him, may be returning to the game.

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