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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for March 2013

The ‘wealth’ video examined

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 4, 2013, 11:53 AM Mar 4, 2013
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Given that there’s been so much written and reported about the haves, have-somes, have-most, and have-nots, in the last few years, there seems to be more at work here in people’s incorrect perceptions of the distribution of wealth in the U.S.

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Appeals Court: Gang rape participant not an adult

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 4, 2013, 10:37 AM Mar 4, 2013
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals has overturned the certification of a 17-year to stand trial as an adult for his participation in a gang-related rape of a girl on St. Paul’s East side.

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Five by 8

A cure (5×8 – 3/4/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 4, 2013, 7:21 AM Mar 4, 2013
9

The implications of a cure for AIDS, where are the kids in local sports, the Klan in North Dakota, tribute for a code talker, and one for all the ‘tortured souls.’

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When sinkholes strike

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2013, 4:34 PM Mar 1, 2013
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The story out of Florida today is a horrific one. A man was in his bad around 11 p.m., when the earth opens up and swallows him. Jeffrey Bush, 37, is presumed dead below his home near Tampa.

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The art of the ‘Jedi mind meld’

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2013, 3:12 PM Mar 1, 2013
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There’s no such thing as a Jedi mind meld.

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Arts & Culture · Education

Ode to the ‘band kids’

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2013, 1:05 PM Mar 1, 2013
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You don’t usually hear about the kids in the school band getting into trouble. They tend not to jump on tables at lunch doing the Harlem Shake, or suspended from band for making sex tapes, and they’re not usually the schoolyard bullies. Band — music programs — must be doing something right, or the programs just seem to attract a decent brand of child.

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Five by 8

Love and fish fries (5×9 – 3/1/2013)

Nate Minor March 1, 2013, 7:27 AM Mar 1, 2013
6

Bruce Kramer on expressing love, get yourself to a fish fry tonight, how one interprets duty to one’s country, St. Jose Canseco and, of course, the sequester.

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