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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for August 2009

Woodstock’s meaning?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2009, 1:50 PM Aug 14, 2009
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It means when you look back on anything 40 years later, you’re bound to feel older.

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Live-blogging Midday: St. Paul and Minneapolis budgets

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2009, 11:04 AM Aug 14, 2009
2

Both Minneapolis and St. Paul mayors have released their budget updates. Both call for increases in property taxes and reductions in some services.

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Consumers aren’t buying the idea of an improved economy

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2009, 8:55 AM Aug 14, 2009
14

Despite news reports that say things are looking up, consumer confidence dropped in July.

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Five at 8 – 8/14/09: When do you forgive?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2009, 7:14 AM Aug 14, 2009
7

What good is an apology, would you be my homeboy, falling in love with a WASP, video of the Hudson River crash, and where are Minnesota’s uninsured?

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The Unemployed: Thomas Schunk

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 13, 2009, 2:10 PM Aug 13, 2009
1

The software developer made $70,000 a year. Now, he delivers telephone books.

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Five at 8 – 8/13/09: What about Rosemary?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 13, 2009, 7:23 AM Aug 13, 2009
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The value of coffee and gossip with the neighbors, how to talk to people who don’t like you, why do kids like their parents, how did the Rosemarys get forgotten, would you pay for spam e-mail?

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The plane crash in Eden Prairie

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 12, 2009, 2:10 PM Aug 12, 2009
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What we know and how it might’ve happened.

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How much attention should Obama opponents get?

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 12, 2009, 1:13 PM Aug 12, 2009
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Obama’s spokesman chides reporters for spending too much time telling the story of opponents.

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Subsidizing corporate travel

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 12, 2009, 11:27 AM Aug 12, 2009

The public is reluctant to provide subsidies to corporations with their own jets. But it already was subsidizing corporate air travel.

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Five at 8 – 8/12/09

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 12, 2009, 7:21 AM Aug 12, 2009
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Show me your August. Hells Angels vs. the cops, the reality of the broken immigration system, how not to experience the moment, the end of ‘sleepovers,’ and the gentle whipping of the American worker.

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Science!

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 11, 2009, 3:15 PM Aug 11, 2009
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Americans don’t know that much about science. Clearly we’re not blowing up enough stuff.

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People-watching politics

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 11, 2009, 2:05 PM Aug 11, 2009
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For pure theater, the growing protests over President Obama’s health care initiative makes for a compelling people-watching moment or two.

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Stuck in the middle

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 11, 2009, 12:21 PM Aug 11, 2009
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What if you don’t want to choose sides in a political debate?

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Tiger

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 11, 2009, 12:00 PM Aug 11, 2009
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Images from Hazeltine

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Five at 8: 8/11/09

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 11, 2009, 7:35 AM Aug 11, 2009
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Getting state help for the unemployed, where are all the passengers from the Continental Express Jet flight, a sportswriter admits he’s got a drinking problem, the secret of happiness from the man who created the pain index, and the long life of optimists.

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