The local coffee shop in St. Paul is singing a familiar refrain. It opened early on Monday — 5 a.m. — to serve the hordes of delegates and media we’ve been hearing about for the last two years.
Crickets.
On the other side of the river, hours earlier, there were plenty of customers. Wrong city. Wrong hour. Wrong drink.
(h/t: Tom Weber)
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins