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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Live-blogging Midmorning: Getting ‘less tough on crime?’

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 16, 2009, 8:56 AM Apr 16, 2009
29

Is it time to take another look at prison sentences?

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Five at 8 – 4/16/09

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 16, 2009, 7:18 AM Apr 16, 2009
1

Disappearing Minnesota jobs, bailout money in flyover country, the voice of Jimmy Doolittle, a musical trip inside the brain, and a Vatican rejection.

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Are Somalis interested in the American culture?

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 15, 2009, 2:16 PM Apr 15, 2009
13

What does it mean to be a citizen?

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The lure of long distance

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 15, 2009, 1:08 PM Apr 15, 2009
3

Why do people run marathons?

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Is it art?

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 15, 2009, 10:58 AM Apr 15, 2009
4

If you create an online symphony orchestra out of hundreds of individual videos of people playing their notes by themselves somewhere else, is it really an orchestra?

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Five at 8 – 4/15/09

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 15, 2009, 7:51 AM Apr 15, 2009
2

Your passion or your life, a world without sex, Webbys, tea bags, and fusion. All in one place.

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Breathing new life into an old song

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 14, 2009, 8:18 PM Apr 14, 2009
12

What’s the best version of the National Anthem ever?

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What to do with an old man?

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 14, 2009, 4:58 PM Apr 14, 2009
1

The pace of justice is slow. When it comes to the case of John Demjanjuk, it’s glacial.

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The dud flood

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 14, 2009, 1:48 PM Apr 14, 2009

It’s becoming more obvious now that the fears of another major flood threat in the Fargo-Moorhead area were overblown, at least based on the predictions.

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Bedbugs

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 14, 2009, 11:29 AM Apr 14, 2009

Worse than the advancing Emerald Ash Borer.

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Surveys and trivia

Better Know a District

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 14, 2009, 10:56 AM Apr 14, 2009
6

Why would a politician agree to be interviewed by Stephen Colbert.

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Can anyone here play this game?

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 14, 2009, 10:17 AM Apr 14, 2009

Maybe it’s time for new analysts.

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Five at 8 – 4/14/09

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 14, 2009, 7:16 AM Apr 14, 2009
11

Suicide, Spector’s hair, Spring, new Twins uniforms, and the cost of Coleman’s gambit.

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Passing voices

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 13, 2009, 1:11 PM Apr 13, 2009
4

Harry Kalas died today. Like Herb Carneal before him, he was one of the last great baseball broadcasters.

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Live-blogging Midday: Gov. Tim Pawlenty

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 13, 2009, 10:38 AM Apr 13, 2009
21

Gov. Tim Pawlenty on MPR’s Midday at 11.

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