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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

NASA record-holder signs off.

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 2:18 PM Jan 14, 2013
1

If any humans orbiting the earth want to talk to the Roseville (by way of Bemidji) native Paul Dye in the future, they’ll have to call him at home.

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A picture worth one word

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 2:02 PM Jan 14, 2013
5

You’d have to be in a fairly high state of denial not to see that this is a cover intending to make a guy look like a mob boss.

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Even more Public Radio humor

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 12:43 PM Jan 14, 2013
3

Oh, those crazy classical music people.

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A medal for Mr. Huschle

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 12:10 PM Jan 14, 2013
1

Seventy years is a heck of a long time to wait for a medal you deserved from the U.S. military.

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Youngest survivor on Schindler’s List dies

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 11:51 AM Jan 14, 2013
2

Leon Leyson ended up teaching high school in Los Angeles for 39 years, and rarely mentioned his story to anyone.

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Weather

Embracing winter: Ski music

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 11:41 AM Jan 14, 2013
0

Why oh why couldn’t this be Minnesota?

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Five by 8

What a seven-year-old can do (5×8 – 1/14/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2013, 7:34 AM Jan 14, 2013
6

Long Lost? No problem. The trafficking of our little girls, the man Peter Linnerooth couldn’t help, when things aren’t what they seem, and coming together on climate.

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Blake Cognata dead at 17

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2013, 5:20 PM Jan 12, 2013
1

Blake Cognata, the New York high schooler who was surprised earlier this week by a call from Minnesota Viking star Adrian Peterson,has died of cancer.

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (audio) – 1/11/13

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 4:48 PM Jan 11, 2013
2

The U of M looks for more dough, guns that won’t shoot unless you own it, and the weird things we’re doing now because we’re so afraid of the flu.

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Choir comedy

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 4:35 PM Jan 11, 2013
1

More over, football players, the choir kids are the new cool, at least in Woodbury.

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Dumbest press release of the week

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 3:35 PM Jan 11, 2013
6

We get a lot of press releases e-mailed to us during the course of a week, 99.9 percent of which end up in the trash.

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The moon up close

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 1:55 PM Jan 11, 2013
1

NASA’s just-released video is cool enough to almost make you remember when the moon was a mysterious place that could make you want to learn more about it.

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Comedy and hockey

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 1:20 PM Jan 11, 2013
1

Sure, it’s good news the National Hockey League lockout is over. But it’s bad news for comedy.

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Fleet Farm takes on gun control

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 10:55 AM Jan 11, 2013
55

A lot of businesses don’t like to get into political fights and alienate any segment — even a minor segment — of their customers. Fleet Farm isn’t one of them.

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Five by 8

Flu season symptoms: Sniffles, body aches, and finger pointing (5×8 – 1/11/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2013, 7:15 AM Jan 11, 2013
5

Blame the media flu season begins, who stole Richard Landers, the legend of Flight 90, when the phone call comes, and fun in coffee shops with old men.

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