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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

By Bob Collins

Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.

Five by 8

Troops in the trash (5×8- 11/10/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 10, 2011, 6:50 AM Nov 10, 2011
10

The disposable soldier, the kidnappings we pay attention to, newspaper to Jesse: Get lost, Rick Perry’s memory, and the power of power.

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Two Pictures: One kid at a time

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2011, 1:38 PM Nov 9, 2011
12

The beauty of relief workers is they understand the value of ‘one at a time.’

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Cancer’s ‘what if?’ game

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2011, 1:33 PM Nov 9, 2011
4

A new vaccine has shown some promise when given to women who had breast or ovarian cancer.

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‘The day Occupy Wall Street won’

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2011, 11:32 AM Nov 9, 2011
1

Alex Chadwick tells the story of the protest that sparked the Occupy movement.

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Why Paterno needed to go

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2011, 10:17 AM Nov 9, 2011
9

With hindsight, Joe Paterno’s hindsight is hard to fathom.

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Five by 8

The poll crutch (5×8-11/9/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2011, 7:18 AM Nov 9, 2011
18

A big polling ‘miss,’ Rushford gets out of the booze business, dog dog goose, duck and cover 2011, and a look at a classic prank.

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The doodles of Davies

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 8, 2011, 1:10 PM Nov 8, 2011
1

You can learn a lot about the people you hear on the radio by the doodles they make.

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Anonymous sources and ‘Woman A’

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 8, 2011, 1:01 PM Nov 8, 2011
5

News organizations finally unmask the first Herman Cain accuser.

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The other ‘N’ word

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 8, 2011, 12:14 PM Nov 8, 2011
6

Two Florida officials are disciplined for using a word that sounds like another.

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Tracking the health care law appeals

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 8, 2011, 11:40 AM Nov 8, 2011

You have to love the Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia for its practicality in today’s decision that upholds the health care law pushed by President Barack Obama.

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Five by 8

The Election Day dilemma (5×8 – 11/8/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 8, 2011, 7:12 AM Nov 8, 2011
4

Should uninformed voters vote, goofing on Best Buy, the distracted planet, this day in veterans news, and what would you tell the world about Minnesota?

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How Bill Smith booted the Target Field advantage

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 7, 2011, 3:36 PM Nov 7, 2011
9

It takes a lot of work to make a new ballpark fail at its primary mission, but that’s what happened with the general manager of the Twins.

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A Garth Brooks concert or a funeral?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 7, 2011, 1:49 PM Nov 7, 2011
1

Money to fulfill a man’s dying wish will probably go toward funeral expenses instead.

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Does a Minnesotan own New Hampshire’s history?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 7, 2011, 11:30 AM Nov 7, 2011
1

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has sided with New Hampshire in a fight a Minnesota man is having with the state of New Hampshire over a copper plate used to print this authorized by New Hampshire to fund the Revolutionary War.

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Five by 8

Pox parties (5×8 – 11/7/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 7, 2011, 7:05 AM Nov 7, 2011
12

When facts take a licking, the latest Vikings stadium video, the heart of a racer, dreams denied and dreams fulfilled, and Oklahoma’s seismic mystery.

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