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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

The week that was the week quiz

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 12, 2010, 1:05 PM Nov 12, 2010
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A month has passed since the last one, so it’s time for another weekly News Cut Quiz.

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Five by 8

Picture of a good teacher (5×8 – 11/12/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 12, 2010, 7:19 AM Nov 12, 2010
2

Teachers on tape, when people do good, when religion and farming don’t mix, what does Rothsay know that you should, and the myster of the one-clue answer revealed.

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Is Pawlenty overrated?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 11, 2010, 2:09 PM Nov 11, 2010
10

A new poll is getting plenty of attention in these parts because it purports to show Gov. Tim Pawlenty getting little love from his home state in a poll of potential presidential candidates.

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One Photo, One Interview: Veterans Day

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 11, 2010, 1:05 PM Nov 11, 2010
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At an event in San Francisco yesterday to help veterans get some services. Today’s first hour of Midday is highly recommended listening. Award-winning military correspondent Joe Galloway joined Gary Eichten for a riveting hour about being a photographer and reporter at war. Galloway criticized the fact that most people in the country “have no skin Read more →

Polling problems

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 11, 2010, 10:28 AM Nov 11, 2010
2

MPR reconsiders the methodology behind an apparently inaccurate election poll.

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Five by 8

Letters from a former war zone (5×8 – 11/11/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 11, 2010, 7:53 AM Nov 11, 2010
1

Letters from Liberia, chutzpah Duluth style, love trumps politics, does covering bullying in suicides ignore the underlying health aspect, and Moss on a roll.

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The legend lives on

dgaraets November 10, 2010, 3:15 PM Nov 10, 2010

Thirty-five years later, Lake Superior’s most famous wreck still captures the imagination.

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NTSB worries about increasing number of older drivers

David CazaresDavid Cazares November 10, 2010, 2:26 PM Nov 10, 2010
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By 2025, a whopping one in five licensed drivers will be 65 years of age or older, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Advancing technology will probably help make older Americans better drivers, but at some point many of us will lose the ability to drive safely. On Today’s Question we asked this: “Should Read more →

Raccoon wounds: a random news-Google

David CazaresDavid Cazares November 10, 2010, 2:21 PM Nov 10, 2010
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Here’s one way to generate an idea for a blog post: Enter the first word that pops into your mind into Google News. For reasons I care not to examine deeply, the word today was “raccoon.” So, let’s look at raccoons-in-the-news, shall we? In Alameda, California this week, raccoons descended upon a woman walking her Read more →

Five by 8

What’s with the warm weather? (5×8 – 11/10/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 10, 2010, 7:37 AM Nov 10, 2010
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Is there now a link between climate change and weather, when people do good, words to adimpleate your life, studying cricket testicles, and the law of unintended consequences for airline passengers.

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Whose missile? Nobody’s

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2010, 3:47 PM Nov 9, 2010
5

An answer to the mystery of the missile off the Pacific Coast.

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Tom Emmer Q&A

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2010, 12:51 PM Nov 9, 2010
5

Gov. maybe-elect Tom Emmer is holding his first public appearance since Election Day at this hour.

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Regional history · Weather

The winds of heck

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2010, 12:40 PM Nov 9, 2010
7

A monk at St. John’s Abbey remembers one of the worst storms in Minnesota history, which occurred 70 years ago Thursday.

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Cool video of the day: The marathon

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2010, 11:59 AM Nov 9, 2010

A time-lapse production of last week’s New York marathon.

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How not to get charged with selling meth

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2010, 11:24 AM Nov 9, 2010

The Minnesota Court of Appeals overturns the conviction of a man charged with possessing meth with intent to sell it.

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