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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for July 2011

NASA: No conclusions about melting sea ice

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 6, 2011, 11:08 AM Jul 6, 2011
1

NASA has a whole lot of “who knows” in its release today about sea ice around Antarctica.

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Five by 8

Shutdown: Should the state look the other way? (5×8 – 7/6/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 6, 2011, 7:08 AM Jul 6, 2011
14

Regulating Minnesota, outrage of the day, the future of Cirrus, Tsunami boosts dry casks, the dust that ate Phoenix and the Coon Lake water spout.

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The Internet and the Anthony verdict

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 5, 2011, 4:05 PM Jul 5, 2011
2

The worldwide flow of information did not jump measurably after the verdict, although it appears to have dropped slightly during it.

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Appeals Court: Death of fetus is death of a human being

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 5, 2011, 1:07 PM Jul 5, 2011
2

The Minnesota Court of Appeals today upheld the 40-year prison term of a man who paid another person a few hundred dollars to punch a pregnant woman in the stomach because he didn’t want to pay child support.

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Shutdown: The lunch-hour effect

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 5, 2011, 12:30 PM Jul 5, 2011
15

The winners and losers in the Minnesota government shutdown were on display in downtown Saint Paul today.

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Pawlenty on the shutdown

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 5, 2011, 11:39 AM Jul 5, 2011
3

Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty’s presidential campaign is out with a new commercial, scrapping the speeches and glitz of previous commecials and stressing Pawlenty’s role in Minnesota’s 2005 shutdown.

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Lies, damn lies, and political statistics

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 5, 2011, 10:59 AM Jul 5, 2011

Be careful of oft-repeated assertions about the importance of state primaries.

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Five by 8

The musical shutdown (5×8 – 7/5/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 5, 2011, 7:01 AM Jul 5, 2011
6

Musical interpretations of the shutdown, when people do good, what’s it like to be fireworks, the death of the serial comma, and the Milky Way from South Dakota.

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The Ox Lake parade

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 4, 2011, 4:51 PM Jul 4, 2011

The word ‘shutdown’ didn’t seem to come up in the water parade today.

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Flash mobs never take a holiday

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 4, 2011, 12:56 PM Jul 4, 2011
1

There’s a guy in the middle of this “flash mob” in a grocery store on Cape Cod this weekend who keeps shopping, even as a marching band breaks out around him.

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Five by 8

Blogging unemployment (5×8 – 7/4/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 4, 2011, 6:52 AM Jul 4, 2011
1

How a state worker spends the shutdown, blind carpenter honored, the helmet law reconsidered, how to dishonor the flag, and we the purple.

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Shutdown: Editorial roundup

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 3, 2011, 8:32 AM Jul 3, 2011
3

What editorial boards are saying about the Minnesota state government shutdown.

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Shutdown: Camp Capitol

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 2, 2011, 8:58 AM Jul 2, 2011
1

The most surprising aspect of Chris Lapakko’s one-man protest on the lawn of the state Capitol is that it’s a one-man protest.

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The jobs we do

Random acts of gratitude

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 1, 2011, 1:32 PM Jul 1, 2011
4

I don’t conduct scientific surveys of what people are interested in; I tend to choose them at random and see how their lives are going and where the news fits in, if it fits in at all.

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Red Sox: It gets better

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 1, 2011, 12:59 PM Jul 1, 2011
3

The story is fast becoming the teams that haven’t joined the campaign as much as it is the teams that have.

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