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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Weather

Groundhog to get comeuppance

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 22, 2013, 1:06 PM Mar 22, 2013
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Spring may never get here but at least someone is doing something about it.

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Surveys and trivia

The NewsCut Quiz

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 22, 2013, 11:08 AM Mar 22, 2013
16

Here is a quiz on some of the stories of the week. Try your luck.

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Five by 8

D-Day for air traffic control towers (5×8 – 3/22/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 22, 2013, 7:08 AM Mar 22, 2013
6

The air safety equation, a constitutional test by the side of the road in Eagan, same-sex marriage and the Supreme Court, what if they lived, and the public radio show bracket.

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (audio) – 3/21/13

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2013, 5:01 PM Mar 21, 2013
1

What do you do with a pot-sniffing police dog after your state legalizes marijuana?

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From the ‘worst people on the planet’ file

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2013, 3:09 PM Mar 21, 2013
2

Until you have an elderly parent with diminished faculties, scams that target them seem too stupid to have any chance of success. But they do and with great regularity.

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Jobs increasing. Optimism fading.

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2013, 1:58 PM Mar 21, 2013
5

Our optimism for the future is declining as the economy recovers more.

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State of Hockey, indeed

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2013, 1:02 PM Mar 21, 2013
5

Culled from today’s bill filings at the Minnesota House of Representatives

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The mystery rings

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2013, 12:35 PM Mar 21, 2013
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The world is full of people just trying to do the right thing.

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Why doesn’t it feel like the good times?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2013, 11:12 AM Mar 21, 2013
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The most interesting — to me — statistic from today’s news that Minnesota’s unemployment rate has held steady at 5.5 percent in February is this one: The state is just 1,000 jobs short of its previous high point for jobs in February 2008.

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A little courtesy

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2013, 11:01 AM Mar 21, 2013
1

It’s a day for politeness and consideration to abound.

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Five by 8

Study: Children better off if same-sex couples allowed to marry (5X8 – 3/21/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 21, 2013, 7:20 AM Mar 21, 2013
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Children and same-sex marriage, the shifting DFL on human services, guns and suicide, a picture of beer, and spring on Superior.

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (audio) – 3/20/13

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2013, 4:49 PM Mar 20, 2013
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The New Prague hoax, the standoff in Indiana that’s not a joke, the healthiest counties in Minnesota, and who left this Apollo engine sitting here?

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Cop killed by her husband will not be honored

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2013, 2:37 PM Mar 20, 2013
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If a police officer is on duty when her husband hunts her down and shoots her to death, did she die in the line of duty?

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Timewaster: Population madness

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2013, 1:30 PM Mar 20, 2013
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We give Timewaster Credit [tm] today to the usual buttoned-down people at the U.S. Census Bureau. They’ve put together the perfect afternoon timewaster during March Madness — a bracket form for city populations.

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The little gizmo that could

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 20, 2013, 11:57 AM Mar 20, 2013
6

Voyager has left the solar system.

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