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Archives for September 2010

Weather

Report links severe weather to global warming

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 8, 2010, 2:45 PM Sep 8, 2010
66 Comments

What made “tornado alley” move 500 miles north — to Minnesota — this summer? Why have there been two major floods in Iowa in recent years, and annual flooding in the Red River Valley of Minnesota?

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Era of the flashing yellow arrow

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 8, 2010, 10:31 AM Sep 8, 2010
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MnDOT begins installing a new traffic signal today — a flashing yellow arrow. What does it mean?

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Outside the Bachmann campaign

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 8, 2010, 9:19 AM Sep 8, 2010
4 Comments

In a series of promos last week, CNN promised that its look at the Michele Bachmann campaign would be ‘beyond the sound bites,’ and would be ‘inside the campaign.’

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Five by 8

Do we really need to know how to spell? (Five by 8 – 9/8/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 8, 2010, 7:07 AM Sep 8, 2010
10 Comments

If kids can use spell check on tests, why not calculators? The tattoo convention, gov candidates on health care reform, everything you know about guys dancing is wrong, and the price of old stadiums.

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Surveys and trivia

Will Facebook make you dumb?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 7, 2010, 3:02 PM Sep 7, 2010
2 Comments

A study says the Facebook user has a lower GPA than a person who doesn’t use Facebook.

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Guilty pleasures from Colorado

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 7, 2010, 2:10 PM Sep 7, 2010

The Fourmile Canyon fire in Colorado is the latest disaster to provide opportunities for beautiful imagery.

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You Are: The burning of the Quran

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 7, 2010, 1:35 PM Sep 7, 2010
17 Comments

You are the editor of a major news organization. How do you cover the event if you cover it at all?

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Where’d all the issues go?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 7, 2010, 12:01 PM Sep 7, 2010
5 Comments

There’s no question that the economy is issue #1, but what are issues #2, 3, and 4?

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The sinkholes of St. Paul

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 7, 2010, 10:55 AM Sep 7, 2010
4 Comments

Traversing downtown St. Paul these days isn’t for the faint of heart. If you eschew the auto because of the LRT construction on the roads, the sidewalk sinkholes might get you

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Five by 8

Free hugs here (Five by 8 – 9/7/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 7, 2010, 7:14 AM Sep 7, 2010
3 Comments

A gubernatorial candidate might have the right idea about hugs, who will this generation’s civil rights champions be, bipolar and violence, let’s play dress-up with animals, and the joy of a ride through soybean fields.

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Monday Morning Rouser

dgaraets September 6, 2010, 9:40 AM Sep 6, 2010

How funky strong is your fight, anyway?

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Roads to ruin

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 6, 2010, 7:57 AM Sep 6, 2010
1 Comment

Are construction companies fibbing when they say a road project is completed in time to get a get-it-done-fast bonus?

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Stories on a stick

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 5, 2010, 9:55 AM Sep 5, 2010

Do you have State Fair withdrawal yet?

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Caption contest

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 3, 2010, 10:47 PM Sep 3, 2010
4 Comments

Your State Fair caption here.

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Five by 8

Hanging on to what nature wants back (Five by 8 – 9/03/10)

Nate Minor September 3, 2010, 8:00 AM Sep 3, 2010

The importance of a decaying cabin, Lady Gaga is a communist, an unexpected catch, when plans fall through, and how do you know if your boycott worked?

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