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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for December 2012

Fall of a Wisconsin icon

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 20, 2012, 2:33 PM Dec 20, 2012
6

A lot of doors are about to close for one of Wisconsin’s onetime favorite athletes.

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Paper hearts

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 20, 2012, 1:57 PM Dec 20, 2012
1

There are no grand gestures that could make things better in Newtown, Connecticut, but perhaps it’s the little gestures that mean the most.

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The streets of Woodbury (continued)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 20, 2012, 10:57 AM Dec 20, 2012
7

A police call that gives new meaning to the classic line, ‘Come and get me, copper.’

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Five by 8

How will rural Minnesota educate its kids? (5×8 – 12/20/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 20, 2012, 7:37 AM Dec 20, 2012
6

When the schools fall down, random acts of music, Mr. Ngo’s journey, your daily dose of Twin Cities road rage, and what were you doing in the 6th grade?

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People doing good

The long blue line

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 19, 2012, 3:09 PM Dec 19, 2012
1

Nathan Norman, 5, of Rustburg, Va., has brain and spine cancer. His tumors are growing and the chemotherapy he’s undergoing is just to buy some time.

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A day in the life of a war correspondent

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 19, 2012, 2:48 PM Dec 19, 2012
0

This is the video NBC News didn’t want you to see earlier this week.

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The lessons of the hoax video

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 19, 2012, 12:26 PM Dec 19, 2012
1

Nobody seemed to have determined it was a hoax purely on the basis of the absurdity of the notion that someone would keep filming while a raptor swooped down to steal a baby nearby.

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Tell us a story

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 19, 2012, 11:51 AM Dec 19, 2012
5

Mass murder, fiscal cliff, civil war in Syria. Hey, newspeople get tired of it, too. It just doesn’t seem that way.

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Getting it wrong the easy way

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 19, 2012, 10:50 AM Dec 19, 2012
0

A former newspaperman confesses how he messed up a story about a mass murderer.

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Five by 8

Twenty-six acts of kindness (5X8 – 12/19/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 19, 2012, 7:20 AM Dec 19, 2012
8

Social media for good, the gun business booms, a kid named Julio,stick a fork in pro hockey, and the chemistry of a snowflake

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When kids are kids

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2012, 2:05 PM Dec 18, 2012
1

Kids doing stupid things make the job of being a school official harder than ever.

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All you need is someone to say ‘no’

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2012, 1:12 PM Dec 18, 2012
7

There’s something to be said for the power of drowning out the voice of someone else.

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Survey: We are the 47%

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2012, 11:58 AM Dec 18, 2012
7

Most Americans have benefited from a government entitlement program, a survey says.

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Most of what we’re telling you may be wrong

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2012, 10:52 AM Dec 18, 2012
3

A reporter from the Columbine school shooting acknowledges that just about everything that was reported after the 1999 shooting was wrong.

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Five by 8

Social media and the stories it gets wrong (5×8 – 12/18/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 18, 2012, 7:20 AM Dec 18, 2012
9

Would you wait for a correct story; the nature of forgiveness revisited; the young sick, the old sick, and the healthy; one girl, two hockey teams; and the appealing comfort of the end of the world.

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