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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Wisconsin city’s police no longer chasing gas scofflaws

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 29, 2010, 10:31 AM Dec 29, 2010
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Police say most of the drive-offs are people simply forgetting to pay and they’ve got better things to do than be debt collectors.

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Discipline for Favre

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 29, 2010, 10:08 AM Dec 29, 2010

Suggestions for what the punishment should be for Brett Favre.

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Five by 8

Blizzard wars: Getting unstuck (5×8 – 12/29/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 29, 2010, 7:16 AM Dec 29, 2010
8

The East Coast loses, the value of a second chance, cutting the cable cord, when the invisible war is visible, and let the quarterback controversy begin!

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Big tobacco case reinstated in Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2010, 3:06 PM Dec 28, 2010
15

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit that claimed tobacco companies knew low-tar cigarettes weren’t any healthier than regular cigarettes.

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Alfred Kahn’s bananas

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2010, 1:08 PM Dec 28, 2010

The economist was memorable for one of the best economics lessons ever for someone trying to understand what makes recessions worse: emotion.

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A nation of wusses?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2010, 11:56 AM Dec 28, 2010
3

If we’re a nation of wusses compared to China, how come three inches of snow grinds things to a halt there?

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Reports of a housing rebound have been greatly exaggerated

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2010, 8:29 AM Dec 28, 2010
4

The Twin Cities housing prices are in a nosedive. Again.

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Five by 8

Who made your dreams possible? (5×8 – 12/28/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 28, 2010, 7:11 AM Dec 28, 2010
4

Who went above and beyond for you in 2010, the speed of tech, the long slog of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, on the third day of Christmas, and the curse of snow glaciers.

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Weather

Blizzard wars: The snarl

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2010, 2:02 PM Dec 27, 2010
5

The East Coast had a slight edge in the ‘we feel sorry for you’ category in today’s News Cut Blizzard War. That evaporated the minute we saw this in the ‘handling the snarl’ category:

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Weather

Blizzard wars: Time-lapse video

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2010, 11:49 AM Dec 27, 2010
6

The battle of the Midwest vs. East Coast continues

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Political beliefs: It’s in the eyes

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2010, 11:32 AM Dec 27, 2010
8

A study says political beliefs may be tied to biology.

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Weather

One picture: The cigarette break

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2010, 10:19 AM Dec 27, 2010
3

When it snows in New York, it’s time for a cigarette.

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Five by 8

Snow: East vs. Midwest (5×8 – 12/27/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 27, 2010, 7:15 AM Dec 27, 2010
4

Are we tougher than the East, why don’t airports use the same security procedures, Jon Stewart becomes an insider, the arm-wrestling champion, and what good was TARP?

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Saying something good

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 24, 2010, 9:06 AM Dec 24, 2010
9

The comments section is open. In the spirit of the season, everybody write something that says something good about someone else.

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The Schorr files

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 23, 2010, 1:32 PM Dec 23, 2010
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Even to this day, the thought that a president could put the FBI on the trail of a journalist because he didn’t like the reporting sends shivers up the spines of rational people.

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