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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for March 2012

Weather

Chasing tornadoes

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 2, 2012, 1:13 PM Mar 2, 2012
1

Tornado season is also the start of storm-chasing season.

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The selling of the stadium

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 2, 2012, 12:28 PM Mar 2, 2012
1

As Minneapolis officials spar over the stadium deal, Los Angeles shrugs.

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Hip-hop, politics, and the way we get along

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 2, 2012, 12:23 PM Mar 2, 2012
3

You wouldn’t think that music and politics and economics and our relationships are all related. They are.

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Fluke v. Limbaugh

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 2, 2012, 12:20 PM Mar 2, 2012
15

Sandra Fluke, the target of Limbaugh’s ‘slut’ bombast, answered her critic in the most appropriate way possible: intelligently.

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Claire Frick’s journey

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 2, 2012, 10:27 AM Mar 2, 2012
2

She was diagnosed with a deadly childhood cancer at 16, and on Valentine’s Day this year, she found out the cancer had spread to her brain and there was nothing more that could be done.

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Five by 8

A man fights his disease and the system that might kill him (5×8 – 3/2/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 2, 2012, 7:13 AM Mar 2, 2012
10

Tales from the transplant list, Chick-fil-A and the questions that won’t go away, giving up on democracy, the 2-percent in the snow emergency, and what were you doing at 18.

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Soccer goalie scores on himself

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2012, 6:22 PM Mar 1, 2012
4

The deal to build a stadium for the Minnesota Vikings has a provision in it that raises the possibility of an MLS soccer team being stationed at the dome in the next decade.

Maybe indoors is a good idea, based on this play yesterday when Maccabi Haifa took on Dynamo Kiev.

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We can land a man on the moon but can’t encrypt a laptop

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2012, 2:25 PM Mar 1, 2012
1

Four pages into his testimony before Congress, NASA’s inspector general revealed the depth of its computer security incompetence.

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Exhibit on fat falls flat

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2012, 1:59 PM Mar 1, 2012
3

Disney shuts down an exhibit intended to promote healthy lifestyles for kids.

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Court: Aunts have no visitation rights with nieces

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2012, 1:00 PM Mar 1, 2012
1

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled this week in the case of a woman who wanted visitation rights with the daughter of her now-deceased twin sister.

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Minnesota taxpayers to build Millennium Falcon

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2012, 11:18 AM Mar 1, 2012
32

Look quickly at this picture…

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Banks preparing another run at fees

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2012, 10:26 AM Mar 1, 2012
5

Bank fees are like sports stadium efforts. You never really kill them, eventually the proposals come back until they’re accepted.

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Five by 8

Gas prices in the heart and head (5×8 – 3/1/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2012, 7:30 AM Mar 1, 2012
9

Is gas costing you as much as you think, is it cold in here or is that just Google, embracing winter, blowing the lid off the ‘Three Little Pigs,’ and the science of paralysis.

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