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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Ethics in a war zone

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 24, 2010, 2:48 PM Jun 24, 2010
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Did NPR endanger a farmer by publicizing his name on an All Things Considered post last week?

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The jobs we do

Do-it-yourself reactor

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 24, 2010, 2:41 PM Jun 24, 2010
3

Mark Suppes has become the 38th private person to build his own nuclear reactor.

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The other bridge

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 24, 2010, 12:40 PM Jun 24, 2010
6

One of the largest construction projects in state history is about to end.

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What’s the Story Here? The bench

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 24, 2010, 10:38 AM Jun 24, 2010
2

Long-time News Cut reader Derek Schille has the latest contribution to the summer photo series.

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Five by 8

Five by 8 – 6/24/10: Carpmania

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 24, 2010, 7:31 AM Jun 24, 2010
3

Sex and the Asian Carp, iPhones and the cultists, tax credits and criminals, planes and people, and heroes and their stories.

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Mary and Bob

Fresh Eye on the Radio: Rolling Stone’s relevance

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 23, 2010, 4:55 PM Jun 23, 2010
4

Mary Lucia reveals why Rolling Stone, which has brought down a general, had become irrelevant.

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Slick from space

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 23, 2010, 3:47 PM Jun 23, 2010
1

NASA has released this satellite photo of the Gulf of Mexico, with the oil slick clearly visible.

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The Twitter excuse

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 23, 2010, 2:42 PM Jun 23, 2010
3

Politicians pretend their Twitter accounts are really from them, until it serves their purpose to deny it.

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State worker union pushes back

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 23, 2010, 11:17 AM Jun 23, 2010
6

MAPE unveils a series of radio ads designed, essentially, to counter the assertion that government is a bad thing.

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Gen. McChrystal and the racing pierogi

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 23, 2010, 10:40 AM Jun 23, 2010
1

Rolling Stone has now posted the article that got Gen. Stanley McChrystal fired — or not — on its Web site.

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Five by 8

Five by 8 – 6/23/10: Knowledge, passion, and fun

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 23, 2010, 7:46 AM Jun 23, 2010
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Comparing your kids with China’s, should pols be voting themselves pay raises, the BWCA under assault from above and below, a good duck story, and in defense of a state rep on the Iron Range.

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The lessons of disaster

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 22, 2010, 4:45 PM Jun 22, 2010
4

There are a few sensational paragraphs of copy in the decision of U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman’s order today lifting the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Population by the numbers

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 22, 2010, 1:17 PM Jun 22, 2010
3

While the population of the Twin Cities stagnates, Rochester is growing rapidly.

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Surveys and trivia

Unicorns 1 Hogs 0

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 22, 2010, 12:34 PM Jun 22, 2010
1

When it comes to battling the unicorn meat industry, the National Pork Board is all business.

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If a bear dies in the woods…

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 22, 2010, 11:55 AM Jun 22, 2010
2

Can a Minnesotan keep it?

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