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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for August 2014

War

How a ‘regular American kid’ becomes a terrorist

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2014, 6:34 AM Aug 27, 2014
10

People like Douglas McAuthur McCain scare the heck out of people. He was apparently a nice guy who was also a killer fighting on behalf of the despicable and subhuman ISIS, Read more →

NewsCut at the State Fair

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2014, 4:37 PM Aug 26, 2014
1

If you’re heading to the Minnesota State Fair tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday, I hope you’ll stop by the MPR booth at the corner of Judson and Nelson (just follow the pork chop smog). I’ll be pushing the MPR merchandise from 1-9 p.m., while watching the acts my pals at The Current have planned for the Read more →

Sports

Kevin Love: ‘Can’t say enough good things about Mpls’

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2014, 2:23 PM Aug 26, 2014
2

While the new Minnesota Timberwolves were enthralling fans at the Minnesota State Fair today, the Cleveland sports media welcomed Kevin Love, the first time Love has spoken since he forced a trade from the Timberwolves. “It means a lot,” he said. “LeBron had signed to come back with the Cleveland Cavaliers and just a few Read more →

Arts & Culture · Sports · War

If peace breaks out in the world, is football history?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2014, 1:01 PM Aug 26, 2014
2

Football is deeply American and reflects our values and likes. And that’s the problem. We love us a good war or two. Read more →

Surveys and trivia

Survey: Twin Cities not a safe place to drive

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2014, 11:31 AM Aug 26, 2014
5

Confirming what most drivers already know, Allstate’s annual survey reveals that St. Paul isn’t a particularly safe city to drive in.
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Chopper pilot ignores tainted fuel, takes off, crashes

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2014, 9:40 AM Aug 26, 2014
2

It’s not going to take the National Transportation Safety Board long to figure out why a helicopter crashed in Osage, Minnesota, last month while it was spraying for mosquitoes. Read more →

People doing good

Iowan makes a dress a day for people she doesn’t know

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2014, 9:11 AM Aug 26, 2014
1

Lillian Weber makes a dress each day as she sits by the sewing machine in her Iowa farmhouse. She sends them to people she doesn’t know in Africa. Read more →

Sports

Et tu, Ricky?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2014, 8:28 AM Aug 26, 2014
6

Kevin Love is gone now and the Ricky Rubio watch is now officially underway with a report that the onetime franchise savior has turned down a deal that would keep him in Minnesota. Read more →

Health

Alzheimer’s reveals couple’s strength of marriage

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2014, 7:31 AM Aug 26, 2014
0

Banker White, a San Francisco producer, moved back to Boston to care for his mother after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. During the time of her decline, he did what filmmakers do. He filmed. “One of the most striking things that Alzheimer’s has revealed is the strength of my parents’ marriage, even as it alters Read more →

Economy

Tax breaks chase a part-time job

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2014, 7:10 AM Aug 26, 2014
8

If you move to Moorhead and raise a family, imagine the amount of money you’ll inject into the local economy, creating jobs and stabilizing neighborhoods. Maybe you could be rewarded with a tax break. Moorhead isn’t unlike every other community in Minnesota when it comes to wanting businesses to move in but, like yesterday’s news Read more →

Arts & Culture

Robin Williams: ‘What a concept!’

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2014, 6:48 AM Aug 26, 2014
0

You didn’t miss much if you missed the Emmys last night, with one exception: Billy Crystal’s tribute to Robin Williams, who took his own life a few weeks ago. “I used to think if I could just put a saddle on him and stay on for eight seconds I would be OK,” he said.

Sports

Love’s got his number

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 25, 2014, 4:34 PM Aug 25, 2014
1

Kevin Love is shedding his past in a big way, first dumping Minnesota and now the number — 42 — he’s worn in high school, college at UCLA, and in the NBA with the Timberwolves. The new number? Behold: We won’t know for certain what this is all about until Love is introduced to the Read more →

Economy

Furniture maker gets $6 million from Wisconsin to cut jobs

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 25, 2014, 1:46 PM Aug 25, 2014
2

It’s become a fairly common game in business to extract public dollars in exchange for creating additional jobs, but in Wisconsin, Ashley Furniture is getting $6 million from the state in exchange for laying people off. According to the Milwaukee State Journal, the $6 million tax credit was awarded in January to the company in Read more →

People doing good

What do you want to do before you die?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 25, 2014, 12:58 PM Aug 25, 2014
4

Justin and Tia met in elementary school in Kentucky, but fate kept them apart. Her family moved to Green Bay. He joined the Air Force and moved to Italy. After nine years of speaking online, they finally have been reunited, thanks to The Buried Life, the show of four guys whose “bucket list” includes asking Read more →

Crime and Justice

Did NYT unfairly portray Ferguson shooting victim?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 25, 2014, 11:59 AM Aug 25, 2014
9

Writer Maya Lang posted this tweet this morning, allegedly to show how blacks are portrayed differently than whites when it comes to profiles, at least in the New York Times. @rgay Here's a side-by-side on Mike Brown vs. Boston Bomber, both from NYT pic.twitter.com/wpcQmFE9Xj — Maya Lang (@WriterMayaLang) August 25, 2014 Here’s the Times’ paragraph that Read more →

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