Duluth is innocent in the story about a Niagara Falls family that says it got a phone call from a military-family volunteer in Duluth, informing them their son was killed in the war. I wrote about it on Tuesday.
Why would a family from New York get a call from Duluth about a soldier in Afghanistan? It turns out they wouldn’t. The Duluth News Tribune found out the family reported the incorrect area code. It came from Houston.
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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