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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

By Hart Van Denburg

Hart Van Denburg
hvandenburg@mpr.org

Hart is the morning online editor at MPR News.

1 in 4 Minnesotans are obese

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg August 25, 2011, 3:39 PM Aug 25, 2011
4 Comments

Minnesota’s rate of obesity continues to climb

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The tunnels of Tripoli

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg August 25, 2011, 12:51 PM Aug 25, 2011

Raw video footage from inside Gaddafi’s network of tunnels in Tripoli

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Is Dominique Strauss-Kahn owed an apology?

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg August 24, 2011, 12:48 PM Aug 24, 2011
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Charges dropped after Strauss-Kahn’s reputation tarnished.

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The spoils of war

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg August 23, 2011, 3:00 PM Aug 23, 2011
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Foreign corporations rush to get access to Libya’s rich oil fields.

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What elected leaders know

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg August 23, 2011, 9:14 AM Aug 23, 2011
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How important is a politician’s college degree?

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Fed provided $1.2 trillion in loans to big banks

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg August 22, 2011, 10:29 AM Aug 22, 2011
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Fed loans to big banks dwarf public bailout

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Who’s a good boy?

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg August 18, 2011, 3:44 PM Aug 18, 2011

Fido might be able to detect if you have cancer.

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47 seconds well spent

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg August 18, 2011, 11:56 AM Aug 18, 2011
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47 seconds in the Boundary Waters

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Are we thinking about the right things?

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg August 17, 2011, 2:20 PM Aug 17, 2011
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What do we need to be thinking more about?

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Poverty and riots

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg August 16, 2011, 2:15 PM Aug 16, 2011
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What role did poverty play in the UK riots?

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To wake or not to wake

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg August 15, 2011, 11:45 AM Aug 15, 2011

Tourists are taking heat for ruining Sterns County lakeshore.

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Bootstraps for breakfast

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg August 15, 2011, 8:49 AM Aug 15, 2011
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UK poised to follow Los Angeles-styled policing after riots.

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How to embarrass a looter

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg August 9, 2011, 3:04 PM Aug 9, 2011

A Tumblr blog of crowd-sourced edited images that make looters look ridiculous has surfaced.

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One person’s pork

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg July 21, 2011, 6:13 AM Jul 21, 2011
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Do you view the Stillwater bridge request as an example of government pork?

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Tweet roundup: shutdown ends, what’s next?

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg July 20, 2011, 10:25 AM Jul 20, 2011
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Reactions to the state shutdown via Twitter.com

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