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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob – 10/24/13

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2013, 5:04 PM Oct 24, 2013
1

How the health care website ended up such a mess, Wisconsin’s attempt to limit mining regulations, the latest on the teacher killing in Massachusetts, Nienstedt says were made, swimming for the arts, and the most distant galaxy ever discovered. Read more →

Sports

Report: Construction company ‘struggling’ to keep Vikes stadium under budget

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2013, 3:37 PM Oct 24, 2013
0

It’s getting so you can’t build a football stadium for $1 billion anymore. Read more →

Report: Health insurance cancelled for thousands with prior conditions

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2013, 2:57 PM Oct 24, 2013
14

If you buy your own health insurance, and particularly if you have a pre-existing condition and an older “guaranteed issue” policy, there’s a fair chance you’re getting canceled, Kaiser Health News is reporting. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Pepper-spraying cop back in the news

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2013, 1:45 PM Oct 24, 2013
3

Whatever happened to this police officer? Now we know. Lt. John Pike, who pepper-sprayed protesting students at the University of California Davis, was awarded $38,056 in a worker’s compensation case this week. The Davis Enterprise says Pike, who was fired not long after the incident, suffered from depression and anxiety after nationwide death threats. “ Read more →

Would you hear out an ex-con’s job plea?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2013, 12:14 PM Oct 24, 2013
0

An advertising campaign has just been released in the UK, to encourage people to give ex-cons a break. The campaign uses this online video to make the point about how quickly ex-cons can be dismissed. Read more →

The jobs we do

Is there a future for manufacturing and vocational education?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2013, 11:34 AM Oct 24, 2013
3

The narrative that people don’t want vocational jobs doesn’t seem to be supported by the number of trained people still having difficulty find them.
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Five by 8

5 x 8: Vets marching to prevent suicide

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 24, 2013, 7:40 AM Oct 24, 2013
14

The suicide crisis among vets, drown your town, are you Minnesota enough, students try to revive broadcasting at the U of M, and why locals don’t want jobs at ski areas. Read more →

Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob – 10/23/13

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 23, 2013, 4:51 PM Oct 23, 2013
1

Archbishop Nienstedt breaks his silence, Petters asks for the chance to get out of jail alive, the killing of a teacher in Massachusetts, the anniversary of the Beirut barracks bombing, the controversy over an anti-Tea Party ad featuring the KKK and why does pet food come from China?
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Is Thanksgiving worth saving?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 23, 2013, 2:38 PM Oct 23, 2013
5

If Thanksgiving is going to be just another day to go shopping, do we really need to have it off from work anymore? Read more →

The new voice of NPR

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 23, 2013, 1:11 PM Oct 23, 2013
4

The new voice of NPR is Sabrina Farhi. Read more →

Sports

A symphonic World Series battle.

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 23, 2013, 12:18 PM Oct 23, 2013
2

In the unlikely event the Minnesota Twins had surprised us, played decent baseball, and made it to the World Series (which begins tonight, you may have heard), here’s something you wouldn’t be seeing: Two orchestras — St. Louis’ and Boston’s — “playing trash” at each other. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Supreme Court: Warrant not needed in drunk driving tests

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 23, 2013, 10:30 AM Oct 23, 2013
2

The Minnesota Supreme Court has rejected a man’s claim that police should be required to obtain a warrant before blood and urine tests determine whether he was driving drunk.

The court ruled today in the case of Wesley Brooks, who was stopped three separate times for suspected drunk driving.
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Five by 8

5 x 8: Should climate change deniers be censored?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 23, 2013, 7:45 AM Oct 23, 2013
69

Information through inaccuracy, the end of NPR’s ‘voice’, what’s in Minnesota’s trash, a hater’s guide to the World Series, and what’s in a chicken nugget? Read more →

Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob – 10/22/13

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 22, 2013, 4:57 PM Oct 22, 2013
1

How the school shooter in Nevada got his gun, why unemployment is worse for older people, the whistleblower in the St. Paul Archdiocese scandals says she didn’t do enough, the scandalous SponeBob SquarePants headstone, and the walking dead that are the Minnesota Vikings.
Read more →

The jobs we do

Minnesota’s teacher of the year decries ‘tyranny of the 1 percent’

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 22, 2013, 1:54 PM Oct 22, 2013
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“From where I stand, teachers are the last line of defense against the tyranny of the 1 percent.” That line in a speech during the annual Education Minnesota conference last week put Megan Olivia Hall, the state’s teacher of the year, in the line of fire. Hall, a grade 7-12 science teacher at Open World Read more →

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