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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Five by 8

Wake me when it’s 9/12 (5×8 – 9/6/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 6, 2011, 7:10 AM Sep 6, 2011
5

The scared society, the cost of ‘safety’, Duluth rallies for blinded high schooler, naming names in the paper, and people doing good.

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Eichten’s last fair

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 5, 2011, 5:26 PM Sep 5, 2011
3

Some of us are still shocked enough by the recent announcement that MPR News’ legend Gary Eichten is retiring at the end of the year, that we’re not quite prepared for the series of lasts that are about to follow.

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Glittering the Fair

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 5, 2011, 7:26 AM Sep 5, 2011
5

Another ‘glitter attack’ over the referendum to ban same-sex marriage in Minnesota.

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People doing good

People doing good (cont’d)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 4, 2011, 9:27 AM Sep 4, 2011
3

Vandals total a woman’s car. She gets a new one for a dollar.

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Who doesn’t love steam?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 4, 2011, 9:12 AM Sep 4, 2011
3

In NewsCut’s continuing quest to sample the diversity of weekend entertainment in Minnesota, we give you the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion Parade, held yesterday in Rollag.

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Champs x 2

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 3, 2011, 2:35 PM Sep 3, 2011
2

We have winners in the duet championships at the Minnesota State Fair.

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‘Bombing’ South St. Paul

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 3, 2011, 11:46 AM Sep 3, 2011
1

If there were an olympics for flying, this sort of thing would be one of the events.

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Is our love of hockey enforcers killing them?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 3, 2011, 11:18 AM Sep 3, 2011

Some of the biggest enforcers in the game are dying.

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The bike racks of Saint Paul

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 3, 2011, 7:50 AM Sep 3, 2011
1

Famed St. Paul blogger Teresa Boardman has a good question for the city: What’s the deal putting bike racks around businesses with no bike traffic?

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America’s religion: Football

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 2, 2011, 2:19 PM Sep 2, 2011
3

A high school in Dearborn, Michigan — home to one of the country’s largest population of Muslim Americans — is providing a lesson than when it comes to religion in America, football rules.

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Journalism and the lynch mob mentality

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 2, 2011, 10:53 AM Sep 2, 2011
38

The Joe Senser story exposes the ineffectiveness of a policy designed to provide fairness.

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Five by 8

The con game in the corner office (5×8 – 9/2/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 2, 2011, 7:11 AM Sep 2, 2011
7

Fraud and foreclosure, life in a ‘man camp,’ dying in Duluth, reporters white with foam, and the problem with kids being kids.

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The woman who could’ve been an original astronaut

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2011, 4:04 PM Sep 1, 2011
3

Betty Skelton died yesterday at age 85.

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So far, most baseball teams avoiding “It Gets Better” campaign

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2011, 2:28 PM Sep 1, 2011
3

As the season winds down, it’s hard not to notice the number of baseball teams that haven’t joined in a program to prevent LGBT teens from killing themselves..

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When Republicans fight

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2011, 1:37 PM Sep 1, 2011
5

Michele Bachmann’s PAC rolled out this broadside against Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who’s stolen much of her thunder since jumping into the presidential race.

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