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Tornado damage via satellite

Tornado damage via satellite

NPR has just released a pretty neat app that shows the damage from the tornado in Oklahoma this week.
by Bob Collins

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Sabrina’s best day ever

Sabrina’s best day ever

The instructions for Google's Doodle contest was to illustrate your 'best day ever.'
by Bob Collins

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Postcards from the security state (5×8 – 5/23/13)

Postcards from the security state (5×8 – 5/23/13)

Show us your papers, the fallout from the vaccine scare, what Zach left behind, the Legacy debate, and Moorhead owners push back,
by Bob Collins

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God and the Oklahoma tornado

God and the Oklahoma tornado

It's getting harder and harder to expect journalists to cover disasters without it leading to some sort of debate over religion.
by Bob Collins

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Enough with the Hiroshima atomic bomb comparisons

What happened in Oklahoma City was real and tragic and on a scale that takes your breath away. But it does not in any fashion dwarf what happened in Hiroshima.
by Bob Collins

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Justices fume over MN Supreme Court ruling in sexual harassment case

The Minnesota Supreme Court today rejected the argument that if an employer's sexually explicit behavior is extended to both women and men in the workplace, it's not sexual harassment under the Minnesota Human Rights Act.
by Bob Collins

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What happened in the basement? (5×8 – 5/22/13)

What happened in the basement? (5×8 – 5/22/13)

Minneapolis and police department transparency, the people who go to work when a tornado hits, Timberwolves math, the new voice of NPR, and coffins the old-fashioned way.
by Bob Collins

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Mary and Bob (5/21/13)

The searching ends in Oklahoma, the politicians spin in Minnesota.
by Bob Collins

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If the tornado had hit MSP

If the tornado had hit MSP

The weather service says the tornado's path was 17 miles long and 1.3 miles wide.
by Bob Collins

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A 2018 Super Bowl for Minneapolis?

The NFL awards the 2016 Super Bowl to San Francisco.
by Bob Collins

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