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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for May 2013

What happens when people don’t fit our categories?

Paul TostoPaul Tosto May 28, 2013, 2:30 PM May 28, 2013
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How do we examine economic success, employment trends, the education achievement gap and other big topics if people increasingly don’t fit into the categories that have been built to look at that data?

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ND: More bars per resident than any other state

Nate Minor May 28, 2013, 12:33 PM May 28, 2013
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North Dakota: Where there are more bars per capita than there are bars.

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Five by 8

Welcome to the job search (5×8 – 5/28/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2013, 7:43 AM May 28, 2013
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Why education won’t pay the bills, waiting on the Supreme Court, remembering the Y2K bug, the death of Gene Burns, and Gooseberry Falls in 10 seconds.

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Five by 8

The three-day weekend and forgotten holidays (5×8 – 5/27/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 27, 2013, 7:20 AM May 27, 2013
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A day to forget, a house is just a house, how parents and big money ruins kids’ sports, advice for the grads, and Todd Hoffner speaks.

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The crowdsourced vacation

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 24, 2013, 4:02 PM May 24, 2013
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A couple is taking a year-long vacation, going to places people on the Internet suggest. What would lure them to Minnesota, Minnesota?

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‘Phone tapping’ is the new birth certificate

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 24, 2013, 1:14 PM May 24, 2013
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Some people in Congress don’t know understand the controversies they’re trying to fan.

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People doing good

Bad week. Good people

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 24, 2013, 11:54 AM May 24, 2013
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There are so many worthy candidates in the running for this week’s most memorable person recognition.

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Military moms and the bond they have

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 24, 2013, 11:34 AM May 24, 2013
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This is a coincidence worth passing along.

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Bob Dylan’s world

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 24, 2013, 11:02 AM May 24, 2013
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Is it true that Minnesota has only been mentioned five times in songs?

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Five by 8

The stuff we throw away (5×8 – 5/24/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 24, 2013, 7:06 AM May 24, 2013
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Trashology in Duluth, behind school suspensions, after the fire in South St. Paul, the end of the apostrophe, and music for the locked-out soul.

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Sunday liquor sales: The little bill that can’t

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2013, 1:57 PM May 23, 2013
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If government was all about the will of the people, you’d be able to buy booze on Sunday in Minnesota.

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The concealed carry muzzle

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2013, 1:13 PM May 23, 2013
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Joe Blow has a concealed carry permit. If I were in Louisiana, that sentence could put me in jail.

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There’s Texas and then there’s everywhere else

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2013, 12:43 PM May 23, 2013
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The migration to the south continues.

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Tornado damage via satellite

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2013, 11:25 AM May 23, 2013
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NPR has just released a pretty neat app that shows the damage from the tornado in Oklahoma this week.

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Sabrina’s best day ever

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2013, 10:30 AM May 23, 2013
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The instructions for Google’s Doodle contest was to illustrate your ‘best day ever.’

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