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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for September 2011

‘Bombing’ South St. Paul

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 3, 2011, 11:46 AM Sep 3, 2011
1

If there were an olympics for flying, this sort of thing would be one of the events.

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Is our love of hockey enforcers killing them?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 3, 2011, 11:18 AM Sep 3, 2011

Some of the biggest enforcers in the game are dying.

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The bike racks of Saint Paul

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 3, 2011, 7:50 AM Sep 3, 2011
1

Famed St. Paul blogger Teresa Boardman has a good question for the city: What’s the deal putting bike racks around businesses with no bike traffic?

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America’s religion: Football

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 2, 2011, 2:19 PM Sep 2, 2011
3

A high school in Dearborn, Michigan — home to one of the country’s largest population of Muslim Americans — is providing a lesson than when it comes to religion in America, football rules.

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Journalism and the lynch mob mentality

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 2, 2011, 10:53 AM Sep 2, 2011
38

The Joe Senser story exposes the ineffectiveness of a policy designed to provide fairness.

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Five by 8

The con game in the corner office (5×8 – 9/2/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 2, 2011, 7:11 AM Sep 2, 2011
7

Fraud and foreclosure, life in a ‘man camp,’ dying in Duluth, reporters white with foam, and the problem with kids being kids.

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The woman who could’ve been an original astronaut

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2011, 4:04 PM Sep 1, 2011
3

Betty Skelton died yesterday at age 85.

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So far, most baseball teams avoiding “It Gets Better” campaign

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2011, 2:28 PM Sep 1, 2011
3

As the season winds down, it’s hard not to notice the number of baseball teams that haven’t joined in a program to prevent LGBT teens from killing themselves..

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When Republicans fight

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2011, 1:37 PM Sep 1, 2011
5

Michele Bachmann’s PAC rolled out this broadside against Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who’s stolen much of her thunder since jumping into the presidential race.

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The cost of telling the truth

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2011, 12:37 PM Sep 1, 2011
5

For a family that just got stiffed out of $50,000, the Smith family seemed pretty chipper today when national TV asked them to get up early in Faribault.

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What’s a state got to do to get a little presidential love?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2011, 11:42 AM Sep 1, 2011
4

Why don’t presidents visit Vermont.

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Five by 8

Your speech to a joint session of Congress (5×8 – 9/1/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 1, 2011, 7:12 AM Sep 1, 2011
6

What’s your jobs plan, it’s the rain that kills, 9/11 at 10, say something nice, and daily State Fair moment of zen.

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