It was a gorgeous sunrise across the frozen tundra of flyover country this morning. Against the backdrop of a collapsing economy, we caught ourselves singing “the sun will come up tomorrow,” before we recalled another famous sun-phrase: “Red sky in morning, sailor take warning.”
Tonight, Barack Obama gives his speech to a joint session of Congress and we’ll figure out which he’s going with. I’ll live blog it here at 8 p.m.
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.
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