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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Big gas price jump in Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2010, 11:50 AM Nov 30, 2010
14

Gas mileage hasn’t been a big concern for a few years now, but from the indications on the signpost today, that’s about to change.

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Is Minneapolis the new Cleveland?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2010, 8:37 AM Nov 30, 2010
5

Whatever recovery was underway in home market values has collapsed in the Minneapolis area.

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Five by 8

Guilt trip (5×8 – 11/30/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2010, 7:23 AM Nov 30, 2010
2

Begging for attention, Pawlenty’s new pardon controversy, the war photographer, scenes from an empty Congress, and this is what net neutrality looks like.

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Bob Feller

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 29, 2010, 3:06 PM Nov 29, 2010
5

The baseball great has been admitted to a hospital. We’ll never see the likes of him again.

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Fat: It’s what’s for lunch

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 29, 2010, 2:12 PM Nov 29, 2010
3

In one Minneapolis school, nothing says ‘fun’ like a wad of fat stuffed in collagen casings.

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A life in Legos

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 29, 2010, 12:28 PM Nov 29, 2010
2

If we had a “cool” tag on News Cut, we’d have to apply it to this tribute to Luke Bucklin, the Sierra Bravo (now The Nerdery) who was killed in a plane crash in Wyoming last month.

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Pay freeze?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 29, 2010, 11:45 AM Nov 29, 2010
9

President Obama is proposing a wage freeze for federal employees to cut the deficit. It doesn’t quite rise to drop-in-the-bucket status.

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Five by 8

Grace in Powderhorn Park (5×8 – 11/29/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 29, 2010, 7:06 AM Nov 29, 2010
2

Irony in the park, good vs. evil, to leak or not to leak, lessons of the ignored sibling, and postcards from around the world.

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The things you’ve just got to have

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 26, 2010, 9:02 AM Nov 26, 2010

We understand the way evolution has made shopping after Thanksgiving instinctive, but we haven’t seen anything this year in the ‘I’ve gotta have it’ category that makes getting up early worth it.

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Faces of honor

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 25, 2010, 4:29 AM Nov 25, 2010

It’s been a week since Sgt. Sal Giunta received the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t gotten tired of hearing from him. He was on David Letterman’s show last night.

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Weather

The reality of November

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 24, 2010, 4:31 PM Nov 24, 2010
3

The current snowstorm isn’t a big deal, until you start sliding toward a ditch, or worse.

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No news is news

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 24, 2010, 2:02 PM Nov 24, 2010
1

The hardest news story to cover is the one where there’s no news story to cover.

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Cravaack on Talk of the Nation

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 24, 2010, 1:08 PM Nov 24, 2010
9

Newly-minted 8th District congressman Chip Cravaack was the guest in one of his first national interviews, which featured questions from Minnesota (presumably listeners to Minnesota Public Radio..

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Weather

Welcome to Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 24, 2010, 10:30 AM Nov 24, 2010
6

It’s becoming clear that I’m going to have to start a new category on News Cut: ‘Welcome to Minnesota.’

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Five by 8

Doing the right thing (5×8 – 11/24/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 24, 2010, 7:22 AM Nov 24, 2010
3

Lessons from the kidneys, Tom Hackbarth and the jealous kind, secrets of success, shut up and get scanned, and eight over 80.

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