You know by now that Barack Obama has been named Time’s Person of the Year. Who saw that coming?
But who is your person of the year? Someone you know who made a difference in your life or someone else’s life. It could be a big thing, it could be a little thing, it just has to be a thing that impressed the heck out of you.
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