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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: children

Education · Health

Study: Report cards may lead to child beatings

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 17, 2018, 1:12 PM Dec 17, 2018
13

The study, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, comes from a team headed by a researcher at the University of Florida who studied reports of child abuse in ages 5 to 11 during the 2015-2016 academic year. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Life after the end of the death penalty

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 25, 2016, 12:05 PM Jan 25, 2016
10

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in a typical condescending dissent of the majority, nonetheless raises some good questions in his dissent today of the court’s decision to apply a ban on life terms for juveniles retroactively. Read more →

Crime and Justice

What we have here is a failure to protect children

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 24, 2015, 6:45 AM Sep 24, 2015
8

One of these days, the Star Tribune’s Brandon Stahl is going to win a Pulitzer for his tireless coverage of the failures of Minnesota to protect its most vulnerable children.

Unfortunately, he seems to have an inexhaustible supply of failures to prove it. Read more →

War

1,000 Words: The migrant children

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 2, 2015, 12:36 PM Sep 2, 2015
6

The mass migration of people trying to flee war has one constant: the children. Always the children. Read more →

Pope: Opting not to have children a ‘selfish choice’

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 12, 2015, 11:10 AM Feb 12, 2015
43

Pope Francis has delivered a heaping helping of guilt to couples who have chosen not to have children.
Read more →

Crime and Justice · Politics

When legislators don’t know what they’re doing

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 9, 2014, 6:35 AM Sep 9, 2014
6

If we ever needed a reminder about the value of a newspaper, we need only look at the reporting in the last few week of Brandon Stahl of the Star Tribune, who uncovered a combination of apparent incompetence and faulty legislation in the state’s child abuse reporting system that left Eric Dean, 4, dead. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Show faces of Wis. attempted murder suspects, age 12?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 11, 2014, 1:04 PM Jun 11, 2014
3

How far should the news media go to protect the Wisconsin 12-year-olds who were charged with stabbing a friend near Milwaukee last week to satisfy a fictional character in an online meme? Read more →

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