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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for January 2013

Spamming Twitter

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 7, 2013, 3:24 PM Jan 7, 2013
0

The Associated Press, the news cooperative that is widely known for it unbiased reporting, is going to start blurring the line between content and advertising.

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A second a day

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 7, 2013, 3:18 PM Jan 7, 2013
3

Photographer Kent Frost has produced a video showing the one second he filmed of every day of his life in 2012.

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People doing good

The spirit of Star Trek

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 7, 2013, 2:24 PM Jan 7, 2013
1

The social networking site, Reddit, has done it again.

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People doing good

What’s a proper reward for good deeds?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 7, 2013, 1:27 PM Jan 7, 2013
1

What’s a proper reward for finding a wallet with more than a thousand dollars in cash, credit cards, and important travel papers?

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The lake neighborhoods

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 7, 2013, 11:58 AM Jan 7, 2013
1

In the winter, whole neighborhoods spring up on area lakes, but none is more popular, perhaps, than Mille Lacs Lake.

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Why Minnesota has a sexually dangerous person law

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 7, 2013, 10:54 AM Jan 7, 2013
9

The law that allows Minnesota to lock people up who might be sexually violent in the future seems taylor-made for Thomas Crosby.

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Five by 8

Larry Oakes’ last story (5×8 – 1/7/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 7, 2013, 7:20 AM Jan 7, 2013
8

A voice for vulnerable, on motivation, maybe our kids are smarter than we think, Iowa and the hostile work environment, and ice climbing in Saint Paul.

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob – 1/4/13 (audio)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2013, 5:05 PM Jan 4, 2013
15

Ryan Larson, walking the beat in north Minneapolis, nursing homes that deserve to do a perp walk, and the real reason pilots don’t seek help for their problems. Here’s today’s news discussion with Mary Lucia on The Current.

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Ryan Larson and the urge to name suspects

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2013, 2:48 PM Jan 4, 2013
7

If it turns out that, indeed, Larson was not involved in the Cold Spring shooting as he insists, there’ll be plenty of opportunity for introspection on how he was so publicly linked to the crime.

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The person of the week

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2013, 1:49 PM Jan 4, 2013
1

Malala Yousafzai leaves a UK hospital.

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When rape isn’t rape

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2013, 1:11 PM Jan 4, 2013
4

‘Judicial activism’ has become a bad phrase. A woman in California, however, could’ve used a little in this case.

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A few weeks in the life of a president

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2013, 12:10 PM Jan 4, 2013
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Some new White House photos show how most of us can’t really comprehend what it’s like to be the president of the United States.

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Crime and Justice · Health

The drunks in the cockpit

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2013, 10:52 AM Jan 4, 2013
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KARE 11 reports that the police pulled a pilot out of his American Airlines jet this morning under the suspicion that he was drunk. He apparently failed a breathalyzer test.

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Five by 8

The amazing, changing you (5×8 – 1/4/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2013, 7:25 AM Jan 4, 2013
3

Overestimating your ‘wonderfulness,’ jobs and the health-care law, the value of the UMD brand, whatever happened to the tornado victims, and a Moorhead man steps up for the people he didn’t know.

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Water main break techniques

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 3, 2013, 4:38 PM Jan 3, 2013
0

When I see people drive through so much water, I’m never sure whether I want them to make it to dry ground.

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