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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

The immigration debate

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2009, 2:37 PM Nov 9, 2009
9

Which is the more effective way of dealing with illegal immigration?

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Books: The final chapter?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2009, 12:10 PM Nov 9, 2009
13

If the book business is dying, how come it seems like everyone is writing one?

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What to do with Nidal Hassan?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2009, 11:41 AM Nov 9, 2009
2

How will a mass murderer be punished without making him a martyr?

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Five at 8 – 11/9/09: Hacking up the Internet

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2009, 7:00 AM Nov 9, 2009

Putting the Internet back in the bottle, the perils of political promises, the joy of the surprise visit from your soldier-child, the clash of the pierced-nose culture, and Taylor Swift’s monologue song.

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Behind the health care vote

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 8, 2009, 8:46 AM Nov 8, 2009
3

Why did so many Democrats vote against the health care bill?

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A letter to my loan shark

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 7, 2009, 9:27 AM Nov 7, 2009
7

If your credit card company doesn’t love you anymore, there’s no other option but a divorce.

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Fresh Eye on the Radio: The clues

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 6, 2009, 5:57 PM Nov 6, 2009
4

Clues always look obvious after the fact. The daily conversation with Bob Collins and Mary Lucia.

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What is the TSA thinking?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 6, 2009, 3:01 PM Nov 6, 2009
2

A government report questions the procedures we have to go through at the airport.

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Today in flu

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 6, 2009, 1:44 PM Nov 6, 2009
2

Is H1N1 overblown? People responding to a survey of news coverage don’t think so.

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Rising by Degrees

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 6, 2009, 12:04 PM Nov 6, 2009
1

The fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population is also the least likely to graduate from college. What does this mean for the country’s future?

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Fort Hood victim has Minnesota ties

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 6, 2009, 7:51 AM Nov 6, 2009
1

A Kansas City woman who now lives in St. Paul was one of those wounded, reports say.

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Five at 8 – 11/6/09: Why are we so murderous?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 6, 2009, 7:23 AM Nov 6, 2009
4

The freedom to kill each other, the military and its goats, what babies learn in the womb, the house always wins in the credit card business, and how does Jello work?

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Fresh Eye on the Radio: What we know and what we think

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 5, 2009, 5:00 PM Nov 5, 2009
4

When you heard the initial reports of the Fort Hood shootings, what scenario did you envision?

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Help for the struggling homeowner

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 5, 2009, 3:32 PM Nov 5, 2009

People in danger of losing their home may be able to deed it back to the lender and pay rent instead.

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Mythbusting H1N1: Hand sanitizer

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 5, 2009, 2:32 PM Nov 5, 2009
1

Does it significantly curtail your chance of getting the flu? Maybe, but not for the reason you think.

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