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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

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Water main break techniques

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 3, 2013, 4:38 PM Jan 3, 2013
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When I see people drive through so much water, I’m never sure whether I want them to make it to dry ground.

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The trouble with Blaer

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 3, 2013, 2:08 PM Jan 3, 2013
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In Iceland, you can’t have a name that’s not on an official list.

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Happy Penguin New Year

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2012, 5:33 PM Dec 31, 2012
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The world needs more penguiny people.

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Whatever happened to: The war?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2012, 2:15 PM Dec 31, 2012
4

These faces never change. For more than 10 years, they’ve been bringing dead soldiers from Afghanistan to Arlington National Cemetery, accompanied by family members with these expressions.

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Whatever happened to: The farmer wiped out by floods?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2012, 12:03 PM Dec 31, 2012
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A third of Dayna Burtness’ Laughing Loon Farm in Northfield was washed away. Whatever happened to her?

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Whatever happened to: The Costa Concordia

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2012, 11:50 AM Dec 31, 2012
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Whatever happened to the ship?

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Open thread: I wish I had…

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2012, 8:14 AM Dec 28, 2012
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Write a sentence. Or write a paragraph. Or tell a full-blown story. Just end with this sentence.

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The art of ‘death elasticity’

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2012, 12:50 PM Dec 27, 2012
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The writer predicts more people — wealthy people, mind you — will die before Tuesday as a result of the enhanced tax benefits of doing so.

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The death of manners

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2012, 10:53 AM Dec 27, 2012
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Why don’t parents teach manners?

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Timewasters: Minnesota stars

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 26, 2012, 12:53 PM Dec 26, 2012
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Stuck at work when so few others are? Try a little of this.

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The day in ‘may’

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 26, 2012, 12:01 PM Dec 26, 2012
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Today’s news stories with headlines that may or may not be true or come to pass.

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Viewpoint: Are Americans too in love with the Constitution?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2012, 10:21 AM Dec 22, 2012
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Is the Constitution and the people who wrote it too much of a religious experience?

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Talk to the dogs

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 21, 2012, 2:19 PM Dec 21, 2012
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Dogs get what a lot of people don’t.

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Paper hearts

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 20, 2012, 1:57 PM Dec 20, 2012
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There are no grand gestures that could make things better in Newtown, Connecticut, but perhaps it’s the little gestures that mean the most.

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The lessons of the hoax video

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 19, 2012, 12:26 PM Dec 19, 2012
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Nobody seemed to have determined it was a hoax purely on the basis of the absurdity of the notion that someone would keep filming while a raptor swooped down to steal a baby nearby.

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