You see a lot of roadside memorials in the days and weeks after a death, you don’t usually see them reappear once they’re gone. People move on.
A year ago Friday, Arianna Tatum jumped to her death off the White Bear Ave bridge over I-94. In the days afterward, I wrote about the memorial that sprouted on the bridge.
This weekend, it reappeared.
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