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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for May 2014

Arts & Culture

Whatever happened to Patty Duke’s Duluth baby?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 29, 2014, 7:52 AM May 29, 2014
6

The last time Patty Duke was in Duluth, she had a baby.

It was in a movie — You’ll Like My Mother — in 1972 in which a pregnant Francesca, played by Duke, arrives from Los Angeles to meet her late husband’s mother in Duluth. Eventually, someone gets stabbed.

Whatever happened to the baby in the movie?
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People doing good

Stuck along highway, vet gets a push home

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 29, 2014, 7:25 AM May 29, 2014
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In San Diego over the Memorial Day weekend, the mobility scooter of a Vietnam Vet ran out of juice, leaving him stranded along the road.

Even the typical ‘police lingo’ in the official report can’t take the humanity out of the story. Read more →

Sports

Are baseball games too long or do we yearn for slow?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 29, 2014, 6:48 AM May 29, 2014
6

The Texas Rangers beat the Minnesota Twins 1-0 last night at Target Field. There were only a total of 14 hits between the two teams which, theoretically, should’ve been played lickety split and everyone could be heading home by 9:45 to get up for work.

But the game approached 3 1/2 hours. This is typical of baseball these days. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Brain stimulation might lead you to love Johnny Cash

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2014, 5:05 PM May 28, 2014
6

A study out this week says deep-brain stimulation, intended as a treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder, leads to a greater appreciation of the music of Johnny Cash. Read more →

You Should Meet...

Ending homelessness one pair of shoes at a time

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2014, 1:39 PM May 28, 2014
2

For hundreds of people in the Twin Cities, the difference between homelessness and a more stable existence is a pair of black, no-slip shoes. Or barber tools. Or a bus pass. Or work clothes. Or an electrician’s license renewal. Read more →

S.D. man hopes to be youngest to fly the globe solo

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2014, 9:30 AM May 28, 2014
1

Maybe when you grow up in Aberdeen, you have a natural inclination to see the rest of the world. That might explain why Matt Guthmiller, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is going to try to become the youngest person ever to fly around the world by himself. Read more →

Politics · War

Did the U.S. win the war in Afghanistan?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2014, 8:45 AM May 28, 2014
10

President Obama yesterday announced that the U.S. will leave about 10,000 troops in Afghanistan by 2016, ending the war in Afghanistan.

Is it too soon to ask who won the war? Read more →

Weather

The icebergs of Superior

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2014, 8:00 AM May 28, 2014
4

Today’s forecast. Mostly sunny, high in the 80s with a chance of icebergs. Kid on iceberg Monday at Madeline Island harbor. Not sure how he got there but boat picked him up pic.twitter.com/hHjxVfjr1U — Andrew Krueger (@akpix) May 27, 2014

A diploma for Genevieve, 78 years later

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2014, 7:19 AM May 28, 2014
1

It was the Great Depression and your family needed you to go to work. So you dropped out of school. But you’ve always thought about going back to school or taking night classes to get the high school degree. Instead, you married, raised three children, divorced, then married again. When you were 93, a Council Read more →

A drive in the Google car

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 28, 2014, 6:49 AM May 28, 2014
14

For the first time, some unsuspecting people have had a ride in Google’s new driverless car. They liked it.
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Weather

How not to flee a tornado

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 27, 2014, 4:00 PM May 27, 2014
5

Remember when it was Tornado Awareness Week and the weather experts said you should use to figure out where you would go in a tornado? Remember all the time growing up when authorities told you don’t use your vehicle for protection. Remember when they said don’t try to outrun a tornado? Read more →

Crime and Justice

The twisted world of the honor killing

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 27, 2014, 1:42 PM May 27, 2014
18

For utter incomprehensibility, nothing beats this quote in the news today: “I killed my daughter as she had insulted all of our family by marrying a man without our consent, and I have no regret over it.” A pregnant woman, Farzana Parveen, 25, was stoned to death today as she headed to court for a Read more →

Crime and Justice

MN Court of Appeals rejects medical marijuana defense

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 27, 2014, 10:22 AM May 27, 2014
6

A medical marijuana prescription from a state where it’s legal will not prevent you from being busted in Minnesota, the Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed today. Read more →

Sports

There’s something about catching a baseball

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 27, 2014, 9:39 AM May 27, 2014
0

The only thing that would’ve made things more perfect Saturday night in Davenport, Iowa if it had been Father’s Day. Read more →

NPR story on ACA frustration doesn’t add up

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 27, 2014, 7:44 AM May 27, 2014
13

There’s something not right at all about this morning’s NPR story from Texas in which a Texas family dropped their Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance because not a single one of the 28 obstetricians in their area ‘took Obamacare.’
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