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January 5, 2018 1:42 AM

All in a day’s work for reporters in water

The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore is being credited with 'rescuing' a woman who had to put her car in reverse during the big storm in the coastal town of Scituate, Mass., on Thursday.

by Bob Collins

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January 5, 2018 1:13 AM

At Minnehaha, embracing the freedom to fall

The Star Tribune reports that the frozen Minnehaha Falls is again luring people to ignore signs prohibiting them from walking into forbidden territory.

by Bob Collins

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January 5, 2018 12:00 AM

What’s on MPR News today? 1/5/18

Friday January 5, 2018 (Subject to change as events dictate) Until 9 a.m. – Morning Edition Solvejg Wastvedt reports on the lack of progress so far on the agenda of St. Paul school board members who took their seats two years ago. Elizabeth Dunbar has the story of Minnesota’s solar capacity jumping into the country’s…

by Bob Collins

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January 4, 2018 9:30 AM

Reporters on icebergs while DC tells Minnesota to ‘stuff’ our weather expertise

Oh it's on now between Minnesota and Washington over the weather, giving Minnesotans a reason to get up in the morning again.

by Bob Collins

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January 4, 2018 8:15 AM

NPR audience pans end-of-year-news game

Poor Domenico Montanaro, NPR's lead political editor, found out the hard way that a large segment the public radio audience likes things just the way they've always been. A touch of humor? That's risky business.

by Bob Collins

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January 4, 2018 6:46 AM

Poll: Survey shows football is still the national pastime

Despite increasing knowledge of how the game is scrambling the brains of its players and the political fallout from protests for racial equity, football appears to be surviving just fine.

by Bob Collins

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January 4, 2018 6:03 AM

Winter? It’s all attitude

We can learn a lot from dogs.

by Bob Collins

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January 4, 2018 5:15 AM

Ode to a man who made us proud to be informed

Radio people of a certain age get accustomed to departures. It's the nature of the business. Long before the "gig economy" became a thing, radio was one giant gig economy. People come, people go, the institution moves on as if they'd never been there at all.

by Bob Collins