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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Africa have your say

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 26, 2011, 11:30 AM Jan 26, 2011
1

From Minneapolis to London to Mogadishu, a discussion about the future of Somalia

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Five by 8

Bad sports or good business? (5×8 – 1/26/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 26, 2011, 7:11 AM Jan 26, 2011
10

Should a Packers tie get you fired, the Chipotle firings, happy Swap Day, running in place at work, and the Iron Range weasel’s workout.

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Air continues to leak out of housing market

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 25, 2011, 4:18 PM Jan 25, 2011
1

The recovery in the resale price of homes in the Twin Cities last year apparently was a mirage.

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Is there any hope for Somalia?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 25, 2011, 3:01 PM Jan 25, 2011
1

Somalis in London, Mogadishu, and St. Paul will examine the future.

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The limits of free speech

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 25, 2011, 1:21 PM Jan 25, 2011
7

A jury awarded $400,000 to a man because of things someone said about him on the Internet. Now he wants to make it a crime.

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The achievement gap in black and white

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 25, 2011, 11:08 AM Jan 25, 2011
3

Student achievement for black students in Minnesota and nationwide falls woefully short of white students.

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Five by 8

What’s going on in your cockpit? (5×8 – 1/25/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 25, 2011, 7:05 AM Jan 25, 2011
6

Travails of the tired pilot, Tim Pawlenty: The movie, funerals by webcast, how I became a Minnesota pineapple farmer, and the vanishing mention of war.

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Is the smoking ban next?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 24, 2011, 1:40 PM Jan 24, 2011
57

A bill at the Capitol would permit smoking in some bars and restaurants.

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Sports

A win for Wrenshall

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 24, 2011, 12:24 PM Jan 24, 2011

A small Minnesota school has broken a long losing streak.

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Has stimulus money helped the Minnesota economy?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 24, 2011, 11:37 AM Jan 24, 2011
1

Like the stimulus program itself, there’s a little something for everyone in an investigation of what the stimulus program has brought to Minnesota and individual counties here.

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The Moscow bombing

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 24, 2011, 11:26 AM Jan 24, 2011
2

Some eyewitness video has now been posted to YouTube from today’s suicide bombing at a Moscow airport.

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What do you know and why do you know it?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 24, 2011, 10:26 AM Jan 24, 2011
6

Why do so few students learn anything in college?

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Viral video of the day: The train

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 24, 2011, 10:21 AM Jan 24, 2011
3

A question to consider while watching today’s viral video of the day: How has the Internet changed us?

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Five by 8

Border battles (5×8 – 1/24/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 24, 2011, 7:10 AM Jan 24, 2011
5

Business and the border states, you’ve reached the end of the Internet, the lost blizzard film, the Wind and Mr. Ug, and are you a narcissist?

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How oil is changing North Dakota

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 23, 2011, 10:22 AM Jan 23, 2011

In any boom, it takes some time for small towns to adjust.

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