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Preview: The Great Textbook War

Bob Collins June 2, 2010, 12:01 PM Jun 2, 2010

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It’ll be impossible not to think about current events when you listen to a documentary on Minnesota Public Radio tomorrow about a controversy over textbooks that erupted in West Virginia in 1974.

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Five by 8 – 6/2/10: The YouTube battle

Bob Collins June 2, 2010, 7:14 AM Jun 2, 2010

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The Israeli flotilla assault spreads online, when Alzheimer’s hits an entire family, do dogs prefer HDTV, the Tiny Desk Concert, and the missing bear is missing again.

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Flying under the influence

Bob Collins June 1, 2010, 4:10 PM Jun 1, 2010

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Despite an arrest in Zimmerman this week, it’s unusual for pilots to fly under the influence of alcohol.

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Medtronic details payments to docs

Bob Collins June 1, 2010, 3:01 PM Jun 1, 2010

Are deals between Medtronic and physicians ‘innovation through collaboration,’ or sweetheart deals to drum up some business?

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Court: Getting to work is not your employer’s problem

Bob Collins June 1, 2010, 1:40 PM Jun 1, 2010

The Minnesota Court of Appeals today overturned an unemployment law judge’s ruling that a Good Thunder woman, who already had a 170-mile daily commute to her office in Bloomington , is not entitled to unemployment compensation because her company moved 17 miles farther to St. Paul.

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Flyover country is for flying over

Bob Collins June 1, 2010, 1:32 PM Jun 1, 2010

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi has been tweeting images of earth from the space station for six months. Guess who never got in the shot?

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Discrimination award against MPD upheld

Bob Collins June 1, 2010, 12:14 PM Jun 1, 2010

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The Minnesota Court of Appeals has cut in half an award to a Minneapolis couple who alleged police discrimination in a 2006 incident at an impound lot.

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A celebrity divorce

Bob Collins June 1, 2010, 11:26 AM Jun 1, 2010

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After 40 years, the Gores couldn’t make it work.

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Wash, rinse, repeat

Bob Collins June 1, 2010, 10:56 AM Jun 1, 2010

How a pelican is cleaned of oil.

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Five by 8 – 6/1/10: Around the planet

Bob Collins June 1, 2010, 6:34 AM Jun 1, 2010

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We start with the earth opening up and swallowing a building. And end with others painting theirs purple. It’s quite a planet, isn’t it?

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Memorial Day flight

Bob Collins May 31, 2010, 4:36 PM May 31, 2010

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A warbird returns home after a Memorial Day flight.

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The ‘big mix’

Bob Collins May 31, 2010, 7:02 AM May 31, 2010

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The Mississippi and St. Croix by air.

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Washington: 12 square miles surrounded by reality

Bob Collins May 31, 2010, 6:44 AM May 31, 2010

After listening to James Fallows this weekend on NPR and reading his column on The Atlantic’s Web site, one wonders how America achieved its greatness while the U.S. Senate existed.

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