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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Sports

Pumpkin hurling with a purpose

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 22, 2013, 1:07 PM Oct 22, 2013
2

There’s something calming about smashing pumpkins.
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Sports

Is running up a football score bullying?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 22, 2013, 11:30 AM Oct 22, 2013
7

A high school team in Texas beat its Fort Worth-area opponent 91-0 under some Friday night lights. So a parent filed a bullying complaint. Read more →

If beer commercials were honest

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 22, 2013, 10:40 AM Oct 22, 2013
0

The staff of NewsCut acknowledges liking a beer as much as the next blogger, but it’s also noticed that more and more economic development in the Twin Cities recently involves brewing more of it. And why not? The immigrants who settled here were master brewers from the old country, the community center in the upper Read more →

Five by 8

5 x 8: The Airpocalypse

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 22, 2013, 7:34 AM Oct 22, 2013
17

When regulations are a good idea, the end of Miami is near, the passing of the last Minnesota survivor of the USS Indianapolis, helping Dusan Travica, and what sustainability looks like. Read more →

Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob – 10/21/13

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2013, 4:54 PM Oct 21, 2013
1

The man who confronted the school shooter in Nevada, a vow to fix the health care website, New Jersey’s governor gives up the anti-same-sex-marriage fight, a Wisconsin judge orders the state to stop enforcing Gov. Walker’s collective bargaining restrictions, Gov. Dayton to have hip surgery, and the two Boy Scout leaders who tipped over an ancient rock formation lose their gigs. Read more →

The day a kid passed math

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2013, 3:17 PM Oct 21, 2013
2

Today’s viral video on the Intertubes is tonic for people who long for more parent involvement in the education of children. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Nation shrugs at latest school shooting

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2013, 3:05 PM Oct 21, 2013
7

The latest school shooting barely makes the news. Read more →

Goodbye, Jerabek’s: Century-old St. Paul bakery closes its doors

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2013, 1:39 PM Oct 21, 2013
1

Jerabek’s Bakery suddenly closed both of its Saint Paul locations yesterday. Owners Russell Spangler, Ronda Vincent and John Wills broke the news on Facebook. Read more →

Do police departments need military vehicles?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2013, 1:02 PM Oct 21, 2013
4

The federal government is paying for SWAT vehicles for small-town police departments. Do they really need them? Read more →

Live-blogging Obama on health care law problems

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2013, 10:33 AM Oct 21, 2013
3

President Obama is speaking in the Rose Garden about the problems with the website that allows people to shop for health care under the new health care law. Read more →

Five by 8

5 x 8: How sociological factors lead to an ADHD diagnosis

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 21, 2013, 7:02 AM Oct 21, 2013
13

The roots of an epidemic, the problem with dead bodies, learning to read at 54, job seekers on stage, and a home for orphan Konny. Read more →

Sports

Life, death, and baseball

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 18, 2013, 12:47 PM Oct 18, 2013
8

When the baseball playoffs are down to the final few teams, a baseball game is almost as precious as life itself. Read more →

Five by 8

5 x 8: Adrian Peterson and ‘serial fatherhood’

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 18, 2013, 7:16 AM Oct 18, 2013
20

People on a pedestal and the people who put them there, the men who catcall, keeping it wheel, kindness and cancer, and a goodbye to the Beargrease sled dog race. Read more →

Sports

Why is your kid playing football?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 8, 2013, 10:49 PM Oct 8, 2013
13

Let’s face it. Football fans don’t much care that the constant hitting and brain-smashing action is killing the athletes of the National Football League — a fact that is overwhelmingly proven in Tuesday’s PBS Frontline series, “League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis.” So you could probably scroll right past most of the two hours Read more →

Where’s NewsCut?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 7, 2013, 12:04 PM Oct 7, 2013
62

NewsCut’s Bob Collins explains his recent writing absence. Read more →

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