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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for August 2015

Sports

Here’s why twins.com isn’t about a baseball team

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 28, 2015, 6:07 AM Aug 28, 2015
16

The league has tried for years to get the domain, but the fellas won’t sell. Why? Partly because the twins — the Minnesota Twins — have never asked. Read more →

When it comes to women, men are going back to the ’50s

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2015, 8:09 PM Aug 27, 2015
14

A few days ago, a colleague of mine tweeted that she couldn’t even use an ATM the other day without some guy stopping to critique her breasts.
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Education

Mpls. schools chief sorry for ‘insensitive’ literacy training books

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2015, 1:50 PM Aug 27, 2015
17

The Minneapolis Public School interim superintendent has apologized for optional materials used at a recent early literacy training program that reinforced some cultural and racial stereotypes.
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Surveys and trivia

Why I’m leaving (your city here)

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2015, 1:04 PM Aug 27, 2015
9

Every once in a while, we stumble across evidence that there really are signs of intelligent life on this planet. Read more →

Science

This is what a small plane crash looks like

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2015, 10:53 AM Aug 27, 2015
8

We can add this new video from NASA to our video collection of things being smashed.
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Crime and Justice

Do one-week law crackdowns work?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2015, 10:11 AM Aug 27, 2015
18

Question: Why isn’t there always a crackdown on things that are against the law?
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Arts & Culture

The day Stevie Ray died

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 27, 2015, 8:49 AM Aug 27, 2015
12

For music fans, especially fans of the blues, it may be hard to believe that it was 25 years ago today that a Wisconsin helicopter crash killed Stevie Ray Vaughan. Read more →

Crime and Justice

MN Supreme Court upholds photo ID use by state courts

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2015, 3:57 PM Aug 26, 2015
10

If spectators are required to show a photo ID to attend a trial in Minnesota courts, does it violate a defendant’s right to a public trial?

Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled it doesn’t while warning judges to be careful with the practice. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Education

Iowa teachers in Les Misérables role

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2015, 2:36 PM Aug 26, 2015
3

Oh yes, my unmolded young minds of the West Des Moines School District, your teachers are much more fun than you know. Read more →

Thomson Reuters in ‘reply-all’ meltdown

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2015, 2:08 PM Aug 26, 2015
7

The poor folks at Thomson Reuters got ensnared in the reply-all loop today and it’s all Vince’s fault. Read more →

Surveys and trivia

State Fair Bingo!

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2015, 1:31 PM Aug 26, 2015
18

It isn’t really State Fair season until Brian Sorenson releases his State Fair Bingo cards.

That day came today.
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Crime and Justice

And now they’re shooting reporters

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2015, 8:09 AM Aug 26, 2015
88

You get up in the morning, you go to work, you’re on the street doing your job , and then people are dead. Just like that.
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Health

9/11’s ‘Dust Lady’ dies

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2015, 7:41 AM Aug 26, 2015
1

This picture of Marcy Borders, taken just after the south tower of the World Trade Center collapsed, was one of the more iconic images of September 11, 2001. Read more →

Now playing at the American Legion: a sign

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 26, 2015, 6:51 AM Aug 26, 2015
3

A sign at an American Legion in Rochester, Minn., is becoming must-see gawking.
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The jobs we do

Life lessons from a fair carny

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 25, 2015, 6:11 PM Aug 25, 2015
3

Largely on the strength of overwhelming evidence from my former colleague Nikki Tundel, I’ve come to believe that as great as the Minnesota State Fair is, the Iowa State Fair is better. Read more →

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