There’s no better way to end a week of news than the face of joy.
This was Sloan Churman’s big news story this week. After 29 years of living in silence — she was born deaf — she heard her own voice this week, after getting a hearing implant.
Her husband was doing the filming here and Ms. Churman said she wished he had kept the camera going longer, but he was crying.
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