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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for May 2013

Five by 8

Postcards from the security state (5×8 – 5/23/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2013, 7:08 AM May 23, 2013
3

Show us your papers, the fallout from the vaccine scare, what Zach left behind, the Legacy debate, and Moorhead owners push back,

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God and the Oklahoma tornado

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2013, 2:45 PM May 22, 2013
25

It’s getting harder and harder to expect journalists to cover disasters without it leading to some sort of debate over religion.

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Enough with the Hiroshima atomic bomb comparisons

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2013, 1:20 PM May 22, 2013
6

What happened in Oklahoma City was real and tragic and on a scale that takes your breath away. But it does not in any fashion dwarf what happened in Hiroshima.

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Justices fume over MN Supreme Court ruling in sexual harassment case

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2013, 11:35 AM May 22, 2013
1

The Minnesota Supreme Court today rejected the argument that if an employer’s sexually explicit behavior is extended to both women and men in the workplace, it’s not sexual harassment under the Minnesota Human Rights Act.

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Five by 8

What happened in the basement? (5×8 – 5/22/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2013, 7:10 AM May 22, 2013
10

Minneapolis and police department transparency, the people who go to work when a tornado hits, Timberwolves math, the new voice of NPR, and coffins the old-fashioned way.

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (5/21/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2013, 4:42 PM May 21, 2013
0

The searching ends in Oklahoma, the politicians spin in Minnesota.

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Weather

If the tornado had hit MSP

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2013, 3:39 PM May 21, 2013
5

The weather service says the tornado’s path was 17 miles long and 1.3 miles wide.

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A 2018 Super Bowl for Minneapolis?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2013, 2:26 PM May 21, 2013
7

The NFL awards the 2016 Super Bowl to San Francisco.

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Even if people quit smoking, state will reap plenty from cigarette tax hike

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2013, 11:11 AM May 21, 2013
3

There may be a point at which its financially illogical to raise the price of cigarettes. But the data — so far — indicate we’re nowhere near it.

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Weather

Tornadoes, coincidence, and the spring we didn’t have

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2013, 10:29 AM May 21, 2013
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The spring we missed out on, and the snow and nonsense of April and early May in Minnesota, was part of a season that may have spared others a tragedy like yesterday’s.

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Five by 8

Tornado shows value of media’s weather obsession (5×8 – 5/21/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 21, 2013, 7:43 AM May 21, 2013
3

Getting it right, after Joplin and north Minneapolis, the Legislature as a reflection of us, Moorhead homeowners are on their own for the next flood, and GI Joe plays baseball.

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Weather

Oklahoma City knows tornadoes

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 20, 2013, 4:03 PM May 20, 2013
0

The city of 170,000 has never gone more than a little more than five years without being struck by a tornado.

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Gas price theory: Rockets and feathers

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 20, 2013, 3:24 PM May 20, 2013
4

Gas prices are coming down more slowly than when they went up.

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Weather

The Oklahoma tornado up close

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 20, 2013, 3:05 PM May 20, 2013
0

Even given all of their historic hyperbole, what we’re hearing from the meteorologists in Oklahoma City this afternoon suggests an unusually huge threat from a tornado

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Court: Minnesota’s Human Rights Act prevents firing spouse

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 20, 2013, 11:23 AM May 20, 2013
1

Attention, Minnesota employers: You can’t fire an employee because his/her spouse takes a job with your competition.

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