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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for July 2015

Economy

Should taxpayers bail out Lake Mille Lacs resorts?

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 29, 2015, 7:42 AM Jul 29, 2015
103

There are several elements to the story worthy of discussion: Can the future of the lake and the present of the lake co-exist anymore? What other business deserves a state bailout?
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Arts & Culture

Streaming media: Where the creativity goes to thrive

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 29, 2015, 6:33 AM Jul 29, 2015
14

NPR’s Linda Holmes, who writes the Monkey See blog on popular culture, has found her way — sort of — into the percolating podcast v. radio debate with her latest post about a TV show. Read more →

Poor training cited in Wisconsin skydivers midair collision

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 28, 2015, 4:31 PM Jul 28, 2015
6

The NTSB cited the lack of guidance from the Federal Aviation Administration on how pilots should fly formation flights with skydivers. Consequently, the NTSB said, the owner of the skydiving company ‘did not provide its pilots skydiving formation flight training, and it did not keep records of pilot training nor was it required to do so by the FAA.’ Read more →

Is a safe bike ride too much to ask?

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 28, 2015, 1:24 PM Jul 28, 2015
23

For many bicylists, this is rather a typical day in the life Read more →

Sports

At baseball game, kids prove they’re alright

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 28, 2015, 10:50 AM Jul 28, 2015
5

The unwritten rule of catching a baseball at a game is this: Give it to a kid. Period. End of discussion. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Report: Minnesota dentist shot Cecil the lion

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 28, 2015, 8:38 AM Jul 28, 2015
110

Cecil the lion was a pretty big deal in Zimbabwe. The 13-year-old lion was a major tourist attraction at Zimbabwe’s famous Hwange National Park, according to the BBC.

The lion was shot with a crossbow and — after hours of suffering — a rifle, before being beheaded and skinned.

The killer had bribed wildlife guards.
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Arts & Culture

Politico: Jon Stewart in Oval Office meetings

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 28, 2015, 7:29 AM Jul 28, 2015
4

In his final days as host of the Daily Show, Jon Stewart’s reputation as the Walter Cronkite of a younger generation is getting new review.
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Woman with no arms finds a fan in St. Paul girl

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2015, 3:41 PM Jul 27, 2015
2

Jessica Cox, 32, was born without arms as a result of a rare birth defect. She’s earned a college degree, two martial arts black belts, drives a car and, flies an airplane anyway. Read more →

Sports

Seimone Augustus on her marriage

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2015, 1:57 PM Jul 27, 2015
3

‘I found my place on the team and in the city very quickly. When you’re happy with your career and your environment, but most importantly, with yourself — when you’re your authentic self every single day, without shame — life sort of falls into place,’ she writes. And it did for her, she says, when she met the woman who recently became her wife. Read more →

Crime and Justice

MN Appeals Court rejects challenge to required DUI test

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2015, 12:29 PM Jul 27, 2015
0

The Minnesota Court of Appeals is running out of ways to say it: It’s not unconstitutional to impose a criminal penalty on someone who refuses to take a breath test when stopped for suspicion of drunk driving.
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Arts & Culture

Public radio at the end of its ‘Wits’

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2015, 11:22 AM Jul 27, 2015
35

It’s too early to declare terrestrial radio dead. Nonetheless, these feel like days when we’re watching an old pal in cultural hospice.
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Crime and Justice · Health

In Florida, BBQ smoke divides neighbors

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2015, 10:20 AM Jul 27, 2015
6

We’ve reached peak absurdity when the authorities show up to shut down outdoor grilling. Read more →

Politics

FBI files: Nixon knew of McGovern ‘illegitimate’ child

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2015, 9:39 AM Jul 27, 2015
1

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports the files confirm a rumor that McGovern fathered a child as a young man, before he was married in 1943. It’s the sort of thing that long-time FBI director J. Edgar Hoover could hold over a person’s head if he ever intended to run for office. Read more →

People doing good

Cross-country cyclists stop in Duluth to do some good

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2015, 8:16 AM Jul 27, 2015
0

Nothing can pep up a little home state pride like a group of bicyclists from the East Coast riding through Minnesota.
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Politics

1,000 Words: The black officer and white supremacist

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2015, 6:58 AM Jul 27, 2015
2

This picture of an African-American officer in South Carolina helping a white supremacist at a rally for the Confederate flag a couple of weeks ago had all kinds of symbolism to it. Read more →

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