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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for February 2016

Sports

Bad Lip Reading NFL video

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 2, 2016, 12:14 PM Feb 2, 2016
1

This being Super Bowl week, we welcome back one of the better new traditions of the game — the release of the Bad Lip Reading video of the 2015-16 NFL season. Read more →

Health

Mom hears her son’s beating heart inside a 4-year-old girl

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 2, 2016, 8:32 AM Feb 2, 2016
10

At Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Heather Clark met Jordan Drake and her family. Jordan, now 4, has had six surgeries because of a congenital heart defect.

Heather held a stethoscope to Jordan’s chest the other day, and heard her son’s beating heart. Read more →

Education

Yearbook photo flap settled with a bald eagle

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 2, 2016, 7:45 AM Feb 2, 2016
24

Fargo North High School’s nightmare is over. Joshua Renville, the kid who wanted to pose with the flag and a gun for his yearbook photo has agreed to drop the gun. Read more →

Politics

Donald Trump, loser

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 2, 2016, 6:45 AM Feb 2, 2016
48

Give Iowans credit; they don’t much like bullies. Oh, sure, they liked Donald Trump enough to give him a second-place finish but the story out of the caucuses last night isn’t who won so much as who didn’t.
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Arts & Culture · Education

Small town’s music teacher may be forced to return to Canada

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 1, 2016, 3:59 PM Feb 1, 2016
17

It took a lot of effort to find a music teacher for the Lancaster, Minn., school system. The school in the town of 335 got one applicant. Now, immigration rules are sending her back to Canada, Valley News Live reports today. Read more →

Delta: Sorry about that flight attendant fistfight

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 1, 2016, 1:27 PM Feb 1, 2016
18

How is it possible that flight attendants aboard a Minneapolis-bound Delta Airlines flight got into a fistfight on board the airplane and there’s no video posted online? Read more →

Crime and Justice

Automated parking ramps confounding La Crosse drivers

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 1, 2016, 10:22 AM Feb 1, 2016
11

Some drivers are apparently frustrated that they can’t get the automated pay systems to work right.
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Sports

The power of the free T-shirt

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 1, 2016, 9:49 AM Feb 1, 2016
16

When we get something for nothing, we feel as if we’re putting one over on the world.Except that often it’s just the opposite. Read more →

The jobs we do

Once down to a few, trumpeter swans rule in Monticello

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 1, 2016, 8:25 AM Feb 1, 2016
3

We’re guessing the trumpeter swans who congregate in the open, warmer water from the Monticello nuclear plant on the Mississippi River, would be just fine on their own.

But a man made a promise to his dying wife.
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Politics

As goes my rubbish pick-up, so goes America

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 1, 2016, 6:48 AM Feb 1, 2016
67

Bloomington is the latest community to go with a single-hauler, amid promises it’ll save the average homeowner about $100 a year. The response was predictable.
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