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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for September 2013

Insurance coverage means healthy stats from healthy states

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2013, 4:06 PM Sep 17, 2013
6

When it comes to the low number of people without health insurance, four states lead the nation: Massachusetts, Hawaii, Vermont and Minnesota.
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‘Obamacare’ or ‘Affordable Care Act’?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2013, 3:23 PM Sep 17, 2013
6

What’s in a name? Everything when it comes to polling about the health care law, officially known as the Affordable Care Act.
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For family of brain injured woman, a sad quest for a happy ending

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2013, 1:32 PM Sep 17, 2013
0

Everyone wants a happy ending for Shaina Briscoe. So far, it hasn’t been enough. Read more →

The last day of the Granite Mountain Hotshots

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2013, 1:04 PM Sep 17, 2013
0

Like the cockpit recordings of a doomed airliner, the last words of dead men can be a haunting thing to read.
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When the welfare state ends, it’s good to be a king

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2013, 12:14 PM Sep 17, 2013
2

The king of The Netherlands today declared the end of the welfare state in his country. He then got in a horse-drawn golden coach and returned to his palace.
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Al Jazeera connections stir questions about NPR ‘patriotism’

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2013, 10:56 AM Sep 17, 2013
11

Some NPR listeners are challenging the “patriotism” of NPR because it’s allowing the new Al Jazeera America Read more →

Five by 8

5 x 8: Backtracking on Jerry Kill

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2013, 7:19 AM Sep 17, 2013
23

Strib apologizes for Souhan column, then pretty much repeats it; a toast to Doris; on ‘thoughts and prayers,’ the limits of free speech online, and the homeless man who gave a pile of money back. Read more →

Getting the story wrong… again.

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 16, 2013, 4:36 PM Sep 16, 2013
6

CBS’ John Miller was one of two reporters today who botched the identity of the person apparently responsible for killing at least a dozen people at the Navy Yard in Washington today. The gunman carried the ID of another man and Miller, along with an NBC news reporter, didn’t wait for authorities to identify the Read more →

Crime and Justice · Sports

Mass shootings usher in new era of security at ballparks

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 16, 2013, 4:10 PM Sep 16, 2013
1

Stepping up security at ballparks. Read more →

The great, creepy clown search

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 16, 2013, 3:00 PM Sep 16, 2013
1

Few things can get people as stirred up as the random appearance of a clown.
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Crime and Justice

The people who help when others shoot

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 16, 2013, 2:14 PM Sep 16, 2013
2

Navy Yard shooting photos show patience, bravery in the face of danger. Read more →

Does the mail always need to go through?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 16, 2013, 1:12 PM Sep 16, 2013
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The stories out of Colorado over the weekend have been gut-wrenching; this CBS story this morning particularly so. A young man named Wesley Quinlan was swept to his death, but not before helping to save his friends. “Wesley just grabbed each of us and looked in our faces and just said, ‘We have to get Read more →

Crime and Justice

When stopped for speeding, don’t say you’re your sister

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 16, 2013, 11:45 AM Sep 16, 2013
1

It was a heck of a try by Carissa Jean Elizabeth Stahosky two years ago when she was stopped for speeding in Ramsey County Read more →

Five by 8

5 x 8: Can Jerry Kill be a coach?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 16, 2013, 7:00 AM Sep 16, 2013
18

To be imperfect in a world of perfect, a solution to what ails the Iron Range, how to find a kidney, what does America want for health care anyway, and the Replacements in Chicago. Read more →

The marriage proposal

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 14, 2013, 10:35 AM Sep 14, 2013
3

Over the years on NewsCut, we have presented and talked about the hyperplanned marriage proposals, but this one is a first in our ongoing list: a same-sex proposal. It happened in a Home Depot in Salt Lake City: Utah doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages. There is a federal court case in the state to overturn the Read more →

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