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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for October 2010

Peace and the American consumer

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 8, 2010, 12:34 PM Oct 8, 2010

Would you stop buying goods from China if it led to more human rights there?

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Ten things you didn’t know about the unemployment rate

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 8, 2010, 9:03 AM Oct 8, 2010

The bottom line of the government’s monthly unemployment report — the overall unemployment rate — gets all the headlines, but there are more details beyond the fact the unemployment rate stayed the same last month.

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Five by 8

Get the picture? (Five by 8 – 10/8/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 8, 2010, 7:19 AM Oct 8, 2010
5

Spare the picture books if you want your first-grader to get into Harvard, the danger of documenting grief, when is it time to move on, return to Peshtigo, and Star Wars in paper.

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Does public broadcasting talk too much?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 7, 2010, 1:39 PM Oct 7, 2010
27

NPR commissions a study and finds potential listeners think public radio talks too much.

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Lawyer jailed for refusing to recite Pledge

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 7, 2010, 12:56 PM Oct 7, 2010
2

A judge in Tupelo yesterday ordered Danny Lampley to jail for contempt of court. His crime? He wouldn’t say the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of a court session.

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One Picture: The face of war

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 7, 2010, 10:51 AM Oct 7, 2010
6

Robert Baldwin of Muscatine, Iowa was buried yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery. He was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan last month. This is one of his four children.

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Surveys and trivia

Life and the little red wagon

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 7, 2010, 10:24 AM Oct 7, 2010
1

A car is converted into a wagon.

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Compromise is dying art, survey says

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 7, 2010, 9:34 AM Oct 7, 2010
1

A plurality of those surveyed say they want a pol who doesn’t compromise.

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Five by 8

The beatings will continue until morale improves (Five by 8 – 10/7/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 7, 2010, 7:28 AM Oct 7, 2010
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Why can’t Twins fans handle a little difficulty, the end of Science Friday, truth and the Gulf oil spill, three minutes to make you feel better, and the making of Cinderella.

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‘There’s a little bit of Tucker in all of us’

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 6, 2010, 2:36 PM Oct 6, 2010
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An unemployed man in Minnesota is taking a turtle back to its home in Kentucky.

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Do you know this man?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 6, 2010, 1:48 PM Oct 6, 2010
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An astronaut sues Dido over an album cover.

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In Moss trade, an absence of skepticism

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 6, 2010, 11:56 AM Oct 6, 2010
9

Does time heal all wounds? Or does it just make you forget something you should remember?

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Tucker gets a lift

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 6, 2010, 11:17 AM Oct 6, 2010

A turtle that captured some hearts is heading back to Kentucky.

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Five by 8

Game day (Five by 8 -10/6/10)

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 6, 2010, 7:23 AM Oct 6, 2010
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Randy Moss, who needs ‘twin’ cities, hard lessons and the Minnesota Board of Pardons, who owns Congress, and the miracle of the day.

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A day with the Board of Pardons

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 5, 2010, 8:41 PM Oct 5, 2010
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Twenty-seven people asked the board for a break. Some had good reasons. Some needn’t have bothered to show up. Most got the same answer: ‘No.’

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