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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Radio station’s Hmong parody sparks backlash

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 30, 2011, 2:29 PM Mar 30, 2011
64

KDWB radio in the Twin Cities is apologizing for a song that aired last week by one of its morning show employees.

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The kill team

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 30, 2011, 1:00 PM Mar 30, 2011
4

If the U.S. news media had worked less hard to shield readers from the photographs of the Kill Team, the military unit in Afghanistan that killed innocent people for sport, would there be more discussion about it?

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Minor major flooding

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 30, 2011, 11:33 AM Mar 30, 2011
7

Technically, there’s major flooding underway along the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, even though there’s not.

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Five by 8

Which state parks should close? (5×8 – 3/30/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 30, 2011, 7:20 AM Mar 30, 2011
33

Pick a park, vulnerability and joy, reporters standing in water, are WWII aircraft leaving Minnesota, and March sadness.

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Timewasters: Eagle cam

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 29, 2011, 2:28 PM Mar 29, 2011
6

Three eagles in Decorah are about to be born.

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Wrongly sent to death row, man gets nothing

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 29, 2011, 12:21 PM Mar 29, 2011
1

What does society owe someone who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death row for 14 years? Nothing, the Supreme Court says.

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Minneapolis, basket case

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 29, 2011, 9:17 AM Mar 29, 2011
28

The second recession may be at hand, a housing value survey suggests.

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Five by 8

Who’s ready for a little sacrifice? (5×8 – 3/29/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 29, 2011, 7:01 AM Mar 29, 2011
3

Will everyone share, reporters standing in water, Car Talk in three acts, a man and his goose, and marrying your iPad.

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Is ‘labor’ a noun or a verb?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 28, 2011, 3:47 PM Mar 28, 2011
7

What’s behind the removal of a mural depicting labor history.

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Mississippi flooding comparison

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 28, 2011, 1:58 PM Mar 28, 2011
5

How does an 18.5 foot river level compare to recent previous floods?

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Skyways to nowhere

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 28, 2011, 12:35 PM Mar 28, 2011
3

A downtown St. Paul skyway link is about to close.

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Tracking slight radioactivity

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 28, 2011, 11:23 AM Mar 28, 2011
2

Elevated, though safe, radiation in Massachusetts appears to have missed the Midwest.

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Five by 8

Predicting floods (5×8 – 3/28/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 28, 2011, 7:26 AM Mar 28, 2011
4

How accurate are flood predictions, the kill team that targeted kids in Afghanistan, sleepless for a cause, the hour of darkness, and the beer can chewer.

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Walking back Pawlenty’s Islamic home ownership program

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2011, 1:48 PM Mar 25, 2011
4

Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty — or at least his spokesman — talked tough today when it was suggested an Islamic-friendly home mortgage program in Minnesota might put him at odds with his conservative base.

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Icons: The vanishing general store

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2011, 12:54 PM Mar 25, 2011
6

The nation’s oldest general store is calling it quits.

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