Bob Collins
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Five by 8
Low pay beats no pay, should teachers be required to pass a test to teach, your biggest failure, privacy over accuracy in the note home from school, and the end is cosmically near.
The case of the inspiring athlete, prison and poverty, what can people agree on when it comes to guns, the people pay for the people’s stadium, and do children make you happy?
Some stories show we’re still capable of outrage, solace on the court in North Dakota, still padding toward Key West, when TV is a force for good, and the owls of Minnesota up close.
The meteor above, wiping away history in White Bear Lake, the hardest words to say, winning women and Minnesota sports, and another love story.
Love stories, a tribute to a musician, hockey politics in Farmington, the people who stop to help, and finger guns.
Embracing winter with sculpture, the day in violence, is there a link between violence and video games, where are the Minnesota philanthropists, and no arms…no problem.
We see nothing, the search for Sgt. Baker, the right to privacy and the taxpayer’s dime, in the name of property values, and tales from prom season.
Making the punishment fit the crime, where trivia matters, there’s something about a horse, making water with snow angels, and for the love of love.
The risk and the reward, Minnesota’s same-sex marriage debate, the false memories we hold dear, a hero loses his medal in Duluth, and why do people link weather and climate change?
A rink for the Rossinnis, until hope is found in Kenya, was the farm ad really a tribute to today’s farmer, when is the last time you got an important piece of mail on Saturday, and a return to Grand Central Terminal.
Liquor v. family time, the mother who lost four kids to gun violence, the cyber safe crackers, the fix is in, and fun things to do in the cold.
The end of retirement, the old man and the mountain, the death of Blondie, one coupon at a time, and the Minnesota Orchestra plays the music of freedom.
YouTube vs. the thieves of Brainerd, the coupon clipper’s big haul, Alec Soth’s Oil Patch, when failure was an option, and it gets worse in San Francisco.
The end of the Andrews Sisters, the cold hard facts of being cold in Minnesota, goodbye to Saint Paul’s ‘popover palace,’ another stab at ‘stand your ground’ laws, and why do we think we’re different?