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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

When the news is a joke

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 29, 2013, 12:15 PM Oct 29, 2013
6

A couple of Twin Cities Millennials are getting some love on the Forbes website today for their Theater of Public Policy. Read more →

Thanks for the hard work. You’re fired.

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 29, 2013, 10:08 AM Oct 29, 2013
8

Profits don’t mean jobs, anymore. That’s the reality of the economy in the 21st century.
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Five by 8

Saving the small-town grocery store (5 x 8 – 10/29/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 29, 2013, 7:46 AM Oct 29, 2013
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Can the rural grocery even be saved or do people want to shop at the big stores? Plus: The endless debate ends, a broken promise on Obamacare, should LGBT renters be a protected class, the need for shopping takes a bite out of Christmas Eve, and a reward for a parent doing the best she can. Read more →

Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob – 10/28/13

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2013, 4:51 PM Oct 28, 2013
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With the Fitzgerald and the Ordway within a stone’s throw, why does Saint Paul want to renovate the Palace Theatre? Mary has the answer. Also: Abortion laws fall, why it’s hard getting affordable health insurance in SE Minnesota, a plane crash in Princeton kills one, and new research says children who grow up in poverty have smaller brains.
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Laws to stop out-of-state doctors from performing abortions fail again

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2013, 4:01 PM Oct 28, 2013
3

The law is an anti-abortion effort that has been tried in several states, usually with the same result: They’re ruled unconstitutional.
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Wrenshall chicken farmer makes Super Bowl cut

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2013, 1:30 PM Oct 28, 2013
1

Once again we in Minnesota have prematurely reached the stage of the football season where the only Super Bowl-related discussion still worth having is about the Super Bowl commercials. Read more →

Moments of humanity punctuating this year’s World Series

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2013, 1:10 PM Oct 28, 2013
0

Baseball is using the World Series to highlight some great causes. Read more →

A familiar voice departs NPR

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2013, 10:55 AM Oct 28, 2013
1

We seeing the beginning of the exit of some familiar voices from NPR as the public radio organization cuts 10 percent of its staff because of financial tough times. Read more →

Five by 8

Chasing Oil Patch cash (5 x 8 – 10/28/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2013, 7:35 AM Oct 28, 2013
6

The call of the green in the Oil Patch, do your trust your teenage driver, the stuff people try to sneak onto planes, how 35,000 people comforted a dying man, and more proof that kids are alright. Read more →

Daniel Alvarez and the return to the Northwest Angle

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 26, 2013, 9:48 AM Oct 26, 2013
3

As near as we’ve been able to tell, Daniel Alvarez, the onetime corporate lawyer who chucked it all to kayak from Minnesota to Key West, got there in March and decided to kayak back, has made it back to the Northwest Angle.
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Speak no ill of ‘Boston Strong’

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 25, 2013, 3:33 PM Oct 25, 2013
1

It’s a fine line the Boston Red Sox have been walking in recent months with its emphasis on ‘Boston Strong,’ the rallying cry of the city in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing. Read more →

‘A drunk with hopes and dreams’

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 25, 2013, 12:51 PM Oct 25, 2013
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One of my favorite readers has submitted this obituary from the Rapid City Journal for our continuing series, ‘The Art of the Obit,’ which highlights those obituaries that break the cliche and chronicle the life of the deceased in a more human way. It doesn’t get more human, perhaps, than a young woman who drank herself to death. Read more →

The night Garrison Keillor consoled a grieving state

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 25, 2013, 12:20 PM Oct 25, 2013
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Eleven years ago tomorrow night, Garrison Keillor had the most unenviable job in Minnesota. Read more →

Sports

The kid that won’t take off his Packers jersey

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 25, 2013, 11:13 AM Oct 25, 2013
2

Even more troubling: He comes from a long line of Vikings fans. Read more →

Five by 8 · The jobs we do

Lessons from ‘the little grey-haired lady’ (5 x 8 – 10/25/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 25, 2013, 7:14 AM Oct 25, 2013
15

Patsy checks out, Adrian Peterson’s failure, making it OK to talk about mental illness, marinating in the online comment muck, and why do people want to get married amid cows? Read more →

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