Here’s something we didn’t expect to see in the Sunday Pioneer Press – an ad talking up the competition Star Tribune, which emerged from bankruptcy this week:
That should stoke the speculation that there’s already a dance underway that might lead the Twin Cities to becoming a one-newspaper town.
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