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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

The man behind the man with the voice

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 6, 2011, 3:45 PM Jan 6, 2011

The reporter who discovered the #1 personality in America right now isn’t getting much attention.

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The other Juan Williams shoe drops on NPR executive

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 6, 2011, 1:04 PM Jan 6, 2011
3

The fallout over the firing of a former NPR commentator claims the career of a news executive.

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Health care repeal attempt: Whom do you believe?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 6, 2011, 12:03 PM Jan 6, 2011
7

What if repealing the health care bill increases the deficit?

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Five by 8

Tech and the teenage mind (5×8 – 1/6/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 6, 2011, 7:06 AM Jan 6, 2011
5

How much multitasking can we do, revisiting Huck Finn, the lure of the robot choir, autism and the elaborate fraud, and why do iron Range kids think they have to leave to succeed?

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Does poetry matter? Ask Haiti

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 5, 2011, 2:34 PM Jan 5, 2011

Kwame Dawes has been traveling to Haiti since the earthquake one year ago next Wednesday. He’s turned his findings into poetry.

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Battle continues in home loan modification effort

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 5, 2011, 2:13 PM Jan 5, 2011
1

Trying to get a bank to renegotiate a mortgage to prevent foreclosure is an exasperating experience.

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Homeless man gets job, house

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 5, 2011, 11:43 AM Jan 5, 2011
2

The Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team has hired the Internet sensation fulltime and, he says, given him a house.

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‘The noise of democracy’

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 5, 2011, 10:27 AM Jan 5, 2011
4

Mark Dayton holds one of the most unusual news conferences in the history of Minnesota.

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Five by 8

Random talents of the homeless (5×8 – 1/5/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 5, 2011, 7:05 AM Jan 5, 2011
8

Why is one homeless guy getting so much attention, your walking speed indicates how long you’ll live, the Internet is more popular than TV, who’s on steroids, and President Michele Bachmann?

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Are you getting anything out of the health care bill?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2011, 3:52 PM Jan 4, 2011
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Have you carried your over-age-21 students on your health insurance? If not, why not?

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Another look at Twain

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2011, 3:51 PM Jan 4, 2011
4

Should Huck Finn be sanitized?

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One photo: A burial at Arlington

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2011, 12:01 PM Jan 4, 2011
1

Cpl. Sean Osterman, 21, of Princeton was buried at Arlington National Cemetery today.

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The optimism gap

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2011, 10:06 AM Jan 4, 2011
1

Are we more glum about the future because we are connected to more information that tells us we should be glum about the future?

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Five by 8

Reporters with opinions (5×8 – 1/4/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 4, 2011, 6:56 AM Jan 4, 2011
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Reflections on partisan journalism, why have efforts to muzzle Michele Bachmann failed, more blizzard wars, what to do with drivers who don’t know how to drive in the snow, and all the world’s air traffic in one day.

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Is water the next oil?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 3, 2011, 3:29 PM Jan 3, 2011
4

People are moving into areas where there’s no water.

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