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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Suicide

Five by 8

5 x 8: Pay to play for public education

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 21, 2013, 7:11 AM Aug 21, 2013
7

The ‘user fee’ to get an education, predicting suicide, Indian foster care controversy in South Dakota expands, a Shaina Briscoe update, and Ben Garvin’s magic beard. Read more →

Ex-reporter leaves website to explain his life, and death

Nate Minor August 16, 2013, 12:30 PM Aug 16, 2013
13

Former Kansas City Star sports reporter and SportsInReview.com editor Martin Manley shot himself in front of a police station yesterday morning. He also left a whole website explaining his actions. Read more →

Five by 8 · People doing good

5 x 8: The good and bad among us

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 2, 2013, 7:30 AM Jul 2, 2013
7

Team Josh, Gettysburg at 150, a special session for the Internet tax, why don’t people like books anymore, and Lake Pepin with glorious weather. Read more →

How not to respond to the threat of suicide

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 1, 2013, 11:41 AM Jul 1, 2013
0

Many Minnesota police departments have worked overtime to learn how to properly respond to calls concerning attempted suicides. Today, a North Dakota couple is speaking out against police tactics used on their son more than two years ago. In a Fargo Forum article, Mark and Tammy Erickson of Kindred, N.D., say their son Chase was Read more →

Five by 8

5 x 8: Graffiti or art?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 27, 2013, 7:12 AM Jun 27, 2013
1

Should Hennepin County have whitewashed a mural, the suicide detective, do your cellphone chargers need to be unplugged, the man who sent 19-year-olds to war, art and politics, and 50 states and 50 pictures. Read more →

Her name was Tinu

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 12, 2012, 3:35 PM Oct 12, 2012

Schools pretend that students who kill themselves didn’t exist. They did. And still do.

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Five by 8

The yearbook and the risk of suicide (5×8 – 10/11/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 11, 2012, 7:32 AM Oct 11, 2012
9

The contagion threat, clear eyes and full hearts on the campaign trail, the joy of not having kids, ready, fire, aim, and if you can’t honor a 91-year-old waitress, who can you honor?

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Reporting a suicide in the media

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 2, 2011, 12:49 PM Dec 2, 2011
2

This week, we got a glimpse into what happens when it’s a member of the media who takes his own life.

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Suicides in Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2011, 12:23 PM Sep 28, 2011
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Why don’t news organizations report suicides and when they do report suicides, how do they decide which ones are worthy?

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Five by 8

Minnesota’s suicide epidemic (5×8 – 4/19/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2011, 7:06 AM Apr 19, 2011
8

Minnesota has a problem, should drop-outs drive, struggles on both ends of stadium picture, the official state pipe band, and bicycle polo.

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Health

‘She never knew how beautiful she was’

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 12, 2010, 8:20 PM Aug 12, 2010
48

A memorial sprouts over a highway where a St. Paul woman killed herself.

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Health

Multiple suicides plague some area schools

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 2, 2010, 1:14 PM Jun 2, 2010
18

A 17-year Woodbury High School student killed himself yesterday, the second student suicide there in the last month.

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