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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

What’s your passion?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 24, 2012, 11:00 AM Feb 24, 2012
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What’s your passion and what lengths do you go to in order to pursue it?

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Our dogs ourselves

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 24, 2012, 9:56 AM Feb 24, 2012
1

The real story of Gary Eichten’s dog.

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Five by 8

The ‘moral virtues’ of people who work standing up (5×8 – 2/24/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 24, 2012, 7:16 AM Feb 24, 2012
4

The stigma of the factory, are things looking up, an apology for racist hockey chants, the things that keep hockey parents up at night, and does your name make people dislike you?

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Who weeps for the Hummer owner?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2012, 2:33 PM Feb 23, 2012
10

A congressman is upset because it costs him a lot of money to fill up his gas-guzzler.

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Trashing Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2012, 2:04 PM Feb 23, 2012
6

Assignment: Send me your photos of the junk you find on the side of the road, on the ice, or in the wild.

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Does Hollywood hide special needs?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2012, 12:43 PM Feb 23, 2012
8

In advance of Sunday’s Oscars broadcast, the Easter Seals Society is criticizing Hollywood for not showing ‘characters with disabilities’ more often.

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What a logo says

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2012, 11:30 AM Feb 23, 2012
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If you read the post I wrote earlier this week about Northfield’s Malt O Meal renaming itself MOM Brands, you probably can figure out that I think that the ‘branding’ business is a snake oil industry. Today, the journalism community is abuzz with another example of that.

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In climate debate, science is no match for politics

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2012, 10:31 AM Feb 23, 2012
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People will work hard to find evidence of that which they already believe, and work even harder to ignore that which might undermine their beliefs.

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Five by 8

Secrets of the school board (5×8 – 2/23/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2012, 7:29 AM Feb 23, 2012
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The value of a right to know, upon further review of the racist Lin headline, money vs. morals in Texas, dispatches from the weak ice, and the value of collecting.

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Time travel? Never mind

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2012, 5:10 PM Feb 22, 2012
7

Never doubt Einstein.

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Weighing the freedom to lie

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2012, 3:49 PM Feb 22, 2012
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Today’s arguments about whether it should be a crime to claim military service and honor when none exists could spawn a more interesting public debate than anything in the public arena over the last few weeks.

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Are Dems keeping the birth control issue alive?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2012, 2:48 PM Feb 22, 2012
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Democrats are the ones keeping birth control on the front-burner, Washington Post writer Melinda Henneberger writes this afternoon.

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Appeals Court: Facebook photos aren’t harassment

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2012, 11:42 AM Feb 22, 2012

The Minnesota Court of Appeals says a Chisago County man cannot sue a person who put pictures of him on a Facebook page.

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Are young people still interested in journalism?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2012, 10:57 AM Feb 22, 2012
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A reporter goes to a high school career fair and finds no one interested in what she does.

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Five by 8

Making a state shutdown painless (5X8 – 2/22/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2012, 7:05 AM Feb 22, 2012
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Who should be pain free, where are the women in the birth control debate, the freedom to be a liar, winter the Minnesota way, a letter to your young self, and a murder most fowl in Minneapolis.

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