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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Icons

Requiem for a pig

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 1, 2011, 3:48 PM Apr 1, 2011
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It was almost as if Porky’s, the long-time burger joint, was lying in state as people came to pay their last respects

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Icons: The vanishing general store

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2011, 12:54 PM Mar 25, 2011
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The nation’s oldest general store is calling it quits.

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Ruth Adams, polka icon, dies

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 18, 2011, 2:40 PM Mar 18, 2011
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Ruth Adams, the longtime accordion player at Nye’s, has passed away.

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Regional history

Edgar Hetteen

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 14, 2011, 11:25 AM Feb 14, 2011
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The man who invented snowmobiles in Minnesota has died.

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On a happy note

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 4, 2011, 1:18 PM Feb 4, 2011
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A 1996 interview with Minneapolis icon Lou Snider.

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Death of a hero firefighter

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2011, 2:01 PM Jan 10, 2011

After the World Trade Center towers collapsed, Roy Chelsen spent weeks sifting through the wreckage. His friends say that’s what caused the cancer that killed him last night.

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Death of a doc

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2010, 10:14 AM Dec 31, 2010
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A doctor who brought health care to a small island out of a moral obligation has died.

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Billy Taylor, 1921-2010

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 29, 2010, 4:00 PM Dec 29, 2010
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2010 stole another great while it still could.

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Six degrees of Monday Night Football

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 6, 2010, 10:50 AM Dec 6, 2010

It’s an odd day when news events link back to Monday Night Football.

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Bob Feller

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 29, 2010, 3:06 PM Nov 29, 2010
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The baseball great has been admitted to a hospital. We’ll never see the likes of him again.

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History up in smoke

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 4, 2010, 3:54 PM Nov 4, 2010
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A little bit of history went up in smoke in Inver Grove Heights this afternoon when what’s left of the Rock Island Swing Bridge burned.

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A baseball character dies

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 19, 2010, 2:39 PM Oct 19, 2010

Freddy Schuman was the only person who could make people outside of New York want to root for the Yankees.

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Death of a language cop

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 15, 2010, 10:39 AM Sep 15, 2010
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There was a time in the broadcast news business when an editor could earn a lot of respect by preventing a wayward reporter from splitting an infinitive. Those days are gone, so maybe even people in newsrooms won’t know who Edwin Newman was.

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A tree falls in Amsterdam

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 23, 2010, 11:38 AM Aug 23, 2010

It’s been a lousy week already for nature’s icons.

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Death of a conservative icon

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 16, 2010, 11:26 AM Aug 16, 2010
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James. J. Kilpatrick is remembered by many people for the line he never uttered.

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