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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Chris Stevens up close

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 12, 2012, 12:28 PM Sep 12, 2012
7

Chances are, most of us couldn’t name Chris Stevens as the ambassador to Libya before he was killed overnight.

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Five by 8

The First Amendment as a weapon (5×8 – 9/12/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 12, 2012, 7:40 AM Sep 12, 2012
16

When ‘art’ lights a fuse, should reporters stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, gay or nay in Wahpeton, time to ground flying history, and the civic stories of Northfield.

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Arts & Culture · People doing good

The USA one story at a time

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 11, 2012, 1:40 PM Sep 11, 2012
4

Five people, living together in a bus, are traveling the country for a year in search of people doing good things.

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The cartography of 9/11 New York

Paul TostoPaul Tosto September 11, 2012, 10:50 AM Sep 11, 2012

Maps built in the days after the 9/11 attacks helped emergency personnel understand the damage, the shifting rubble and the fires that continued to burn underground.

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Five by 8

Remember when? (5×8 – 9/11/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 11, 2012, 7:21 AM Sep 11, 2012
6

When is it time to move on, helping with horsepower in South Dakota, the gatherings between the whites and Dakota, why I secretly recorded my life, and even more BWCA videos.

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Pigs, the flu, and the gloom around them

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 10, 2012, 3:28 PM Sep 10, 2012
1

State officials resisted calls to close the swine barn at the State Fair. It appears they were right.

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Court: Police can keep cars of repeat drunk drivers

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 10, 2012, 2:28 PM Sep 10, 2012
3

The court ruled in the case of Matthew Nielsen, who was stopped by Minneapolis police in April 2011. He pleaded guilty to DWI, his fourth in two years.

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Weather

Look up, and watch humans change the weather

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 10, 2012, 11:55 AM Sep 10, 2012
8

For a short time today — too short to get a decent picture — the sky over Minnesota was wearing a pinstripe suit, thanks to the weather conditions that made obvious what is true all the time — there’s a highway over us.

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Five by 8

What makes a community? (5×8 – 9/10/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 10, 2012, 6:54 AM Sep 10, 2012
23

Does ‘community’ matter, the things we do to animals, ‘boom’ times create ‘bust’ people, are you in there, and the Kluwe chronicles.

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Picture of the day: The bridge

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 7, 2012, 4:47 PM Sep 7, 2012
1

The floating of the new Hastings bridge.

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Return to the river

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 7, 2012, 2:28 PM Sep 7, 2012

The Mississippi Queen is back on the river.

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Weather

The field of broken dreams

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 7, 2012, 12:40 PM Sep 7, 2012
4

Tough business, this farming.

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1,000 words: The tomato kiss

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 7, 2012, 12:03 PM Sep 7, 2012
3

La Tomatina, the annual festival in Bunol, Spain, is a photographer’s dream, and apparently a place for lovers, too.

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Five by 8

Nice it forward (5×8 – 9/7/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 7, 2012, 7:02 AM Sep 7, 2012
7

The bullying antidote, the chance to watch someone fall to their death, the political conventions side by side, the floating bridge of Hastings, and the finest example of the American worker.

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The new Americans

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 6, 2012, 4:14 PM Sep 6, 2012
4

There is nothing more inspiring, nothing so pride-filling, as watching people who longed to come to America becoming Americans.

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