A transparency bill for concert tickets goes down to defeat in Minnesota, abortion bills advance in North Dakota, air traffic control towers close and the S.S. Badger can keep belching coal smoke, it just can’t dump ash in Lake Michigan.
Here’s today’s news conversation with Mary Lucia on The Current:
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