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What makes public radio cool?

It's no secret that public radio audiences tend to be older folk. Not every market has a Current to bring the demographics back toward the middle.
by Bob Collins

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Same-sex marriage and the curse of the dueling sound bite (5×8 – 3/13/13)

Same-sex marriage and the curse of the dueling sound bite (5×8 – 3/13/13)

How do you fit hours of testimony into minutes of reporting, the bracket game and the search for perfection, the 68-year-old roller derby queen of Grand Forks, the dog with the bucket list, and is stress a real thing?
by Bob Collins

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Mary and Bob (audio) – 3/12/13

Same-sex marriage gets its first green light at the Capitol. What really happens inside the Sistine Chapel? North Korea probably won't launch a nuclear war tonight. Soldiers lose their tuition. And what makes for the perfect obit and eulogy?
by Bob Collins

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The obit we want

The obit does what a good obit should do: Make you wish you knew the person. But judging from this one, you probably do.
by Bob Collins

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The superstar astronaut

The superstar astronaut

Chris Hadfield, a flight engineer on the International Space Station at the moment, continues to prove he is -- as I described last month -- 'the coolest astronaut in history.'
by Bob Collins

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Mary and Bob (audio) – 3/11/13

The expanded sales tax in Minnesota may not be dead after all, a key day for same-sex marriage hearings, more threats from North Korea, more green-on-green attacks in Afghanistan, a look at the comet, and so long, Percy Harvin.
by Bob Collins

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