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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for April 2011

The picture out the window

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 8, 2011, 3:17 PM Apr 8, 2011

If some young man in Fargo Moorhead can’t buy a corsage for his date for the prom, this is why.

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Where wheat and water mix

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 8, 2011, 1:00 PM Apr 8, 2011
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Not everyone — or at least, everything — is particularly upset about the flooding in western Minnesota.

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Death of a diamond

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 8, 2011, 11:21 AM Apr 8, 2011

Georgetown, Minnesota today literally buried the game of baseball in town.

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Flood notes

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 8, 2011, 8:32 AM Apr 8, 2011

Covering the Red River flooding.

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Human toll climbs in flooding

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 8, 2011, 8:23 AM Apr 8, 2011

Despite the better preparations, the flood of 2011 is certainly extracting a bigger human toll than previous floods

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Before-and-after along the river

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 8, 2011, 7:55 AM Apr 8, 2011

The Red River has risen about 20 feet since the winter, most of it in the last week.

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Waiting for the Red River

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 7, 2011, 11:36 PM Apr 7, 2011
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It’s hard to overstate how things have changed in Moorhead in two years.

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Sandbagging for Quentin

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 7, 2011, 10:43 PM Apr 7, 2011
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Quentin Goehring was sandbagging against a river approaching from across the street on Wednesday evening, when he slumped over and died.

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The Red River flood: Quentin’s legacy

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 7, 2011, 3:32 PM Apr 7, 2011
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Quentin Goehring of Oakport Township spent all day yesterday sandbagging against a rising Red River. That was a lot to ask of a 75-year-old man. It was too much to ask, as it turned out.

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Afraid of the superbug? Blame the internet

Hart Van DenburgHart Van Denburg April 7, 2011, 12:33 PM Apr 7, 2011
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We were warned and our doctors were warned, but it only was a matter of time that selfishness would catch-up with us. Sure, there are many legitimate uses for anti-biotics, but apparently it was one sore throat too many, or one unfinished prescription too many because the superbug is here.

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Five by 8

In search of our character (5×8 – 4/7/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 7, 2011, 7:30 AM Apr 7, 2011
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Have we changed? The floods will tells us. Why our airport is unfair. St. Paul’s statue controversy. Comical jazz. And racing a bus… on a Big Wheels bike.

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Haiti’s miraculous misery

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 6, 2011, 2:29 PM Apr 6, 2011
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Haiti is getting almost no coverage anymore even though it remains the disaster it was when an earthquake hit in 2010.

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The power of reality TV

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 6, 2011, 12:19 PM Apr 6, 2011
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A pilot landed on a beach in New York because he saw someone do it on reality TV.

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STDs at record-high in Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 6, 2011, 11:41 AM Apr 6, 2011
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It’s hard to believe the problem of sexually transmitted disease among Minnesotans could get worse. But, it did.

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The lure of the hookah

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 6, 2011, 10:49 AM Apr 6, 2011

Hookah use is increasing because many young people think it’s safer than cigarettes. It’s not.

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