In The Atlantic’s and Marketplace’s partnership effort, James and Deb Fallows have been flying around the country, dropping down to see who lives there and what they do.
And therein lies today’s question — What Do You Do? — which they’ve found out has different meanings in different areas of the country. It is not necessarily asking where do you work?
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