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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

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Watching the people watching Crashed Ice

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 14, 2012, 12:14 PM Jan 14, 2012
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When it comes to winter, Saint Paul knows how to make it a verb.

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Red tails and black actors

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 13, 2012, 5:10 PM Jan 13, 2012
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Is George Lucas using a racial guilt trip to get people to see his latest movie?

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Death of a fact-checker

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 13, 2012, 2:38 PM Jan 13, 2012
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Richard Threlkeld made fact-checking a standard for political advertising.

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The world of the teenage cooks

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 13, 2012, 12:47 PM Jan 13, 2012

Two separate stories in the news today link teenagers and cooked meat. Has that ever happened before?

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Worst tourism campaigns ever?

Paul TostoPaul Tosto January 13, 2012, 11:44 AM Jan 13, 2012
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North Dakota, I sympathize with your tourism anguish. I come from a state where “Better Yet Connecticut” was the best we could come up with to draw tourists away from New York and Boston. Might as well have made it: “Connecticut: Hey, we’re over here!” Yes, that North Dakota “Legendary” ad with the two goofy Read more →

That jerk on Facebook is probably a jerk in real life

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg January 13, 2012, 10:20 AM Jan 13, 2012

Researchers in Texas say the you on Facebook is the real you.

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Five by 8

North Dakota’s short-lived legend (5×8 – 1/13/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 13, 2012, 7:20 AM Jan 13, 2012
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We’re from Minnesota. We’re here for your women. Plus: the skyway effect, the agony of defeat at Crashed Ice, a deadly ‘whoops’ in Chicago, and a toilet-paper-folding record.

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The legends of North Dakota

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2012, 2:15 PM Jan 12, 2012
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North Dakota unveils its tourism campaign.

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The only Tim Tebow headline you’ll ever read without a religious pun in it

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2012, 1:04 PM Jan 12, 2012
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Tebow is now America’s most popular athlete.

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Who’s assassinating whom?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2012, 12:47 PM Jan 12, 2012
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Sen. Franken on assassinating nuclear scientists.

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Study: Few women make men spend more

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2012, 12:45 PM Jan 12, 2012
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It turns out we’re like animals out there!

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Saint Paul in the spotlights

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2012, 12:09 PM Jan 12, 2012

Not since the days of the ice castle has Saint Paul had as photogenic an event in January as the Crashed Ice spectacular at the Cathedral of Saint Paul.

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Should reporters point out lies?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2012, 10:56 AM Jan 12, 2012
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The New York Times’ ombudsman, Arthur Brisbane, asks an interesting question today that many people will consider a slam dunk, and others will consider: Should reporters point out when someone is lying?

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Greece in the third world?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2012, 10:40 AM Jan 12, 2012
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For the most part, economic jargon and complicated debt restructuring stories are Greece to us.

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Five by 8

Marines who embarrass us (5×8 – 1/12/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2012, 7:10 AM Jan 12, 2012
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The few but not the proud, the neighborhood where Terrell died, treated like dogs, build your own president, and bottles of hope.

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