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Missing hikers found

Bob Collins June 18, 2008, 8:17 PM Jun 18, 2008

The hikers, one from Minnesota, had called home earlier Wednesday but weren’t spotted for hours.

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Right stuff. Wrong gender

Bob Collins June 18, 2008, 5:00 PM Jun 18, 2008

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Janet Christine Dietrich proved the mettle of women long before America was willing to acknowledge it.

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Forfeiting rights?

Bob Collins June 18, 2008, 2:07 PM Jun 18, 2008

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Few people feel sorry for drug dealers and drunk drivers, but is there potential for abuse in the laws that take their property?

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The human face of ‘capacity reductions’

Bob Collins June 18, 2008, 8:36 AM Jun 18, 2008

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Behind all the lingo of layoffs, there’s a person.

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Architecture poll: The final four

Bob Collins June 18, 2008, 7:52 AM Jun 18, 2008

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Now that K.G. has his championship, it’s time to finish another playoff run.

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Steenland’s memo

Bob Collins June 17, 2008, 9:27 PM Jun 17, 2008

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Here’s the memo Northwest Airlines boss Doug Steenland sent to his employees on Tuesday.

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It’s always something

Bob Collins June 17, 2008, 5:05 PM Jun 17, 2008

These days, one plague replaces another.

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It’s just stuff.

Bob Collins June 17, 2008, 4:02 PM Jun 17, 2008

Picking through the ruins of the Cedar River flood.

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The faces of same-sex marriage

Bob Collins June 17, 2008, 2:27 PM Jun 17, 2008

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An elderly couple marries in California.

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What can be read into the reading test?

Bob Collins June 17, 2008, 12:21 PM Jun 17, 2008

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As with most standardized testing results, the closer one looks at the results, the wider the gap between success and failure.

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Cash seizures by cops examined

Bob Collins June 17, 2008, 11:36 AM Jun 17, 2008

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A National Public Radio series looks at apparent abuses in the law that allows police to confiscate assets used in commission of a crime.

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Optimism explored

Bob Collins June 16, 2008, 8:57 PM Jun 16, 2008

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Some people say we were a more optimistic country 50 years ago. Were we?

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Drug abuse snapshot

Bob Collins June 16, 2008, 3:32 PM Jun 16, 2008

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In a survey of the Twin Cities, heroin and prescription drug abuse is up. Cocaine use is down.

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$2 a gallon?

Bob Collins June 16, 2008, 1:31 PM Jun 16, 2008

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Do you think you’ll ever see $2 a gallon gasoline again?

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Weather

Minnesotans pitching in

Bob Collins June 16, 2008, 11:21 AM Jun 16, 2008

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There’s certainly a Minnesota flavor to flood relief efforts in Cedar Rapids

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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

By Bob Collins

Missing hikers found

Right stuff. Wrong gender

Forfeiting rights?

The human face of ‘capacity reductions’

Architecture poll: The final four

Steenland’s memo

It’s always something

It’s just stuff.

The faces of same-sex marriage

What can be read into the reading test?

Cash seizures by cops examined

Optimism explored

Drug abuse snapshot

$2 a gallon?

Minnesotans pitching in