Here’s the immediate payoff to turning back the clocks: We get to see the iconic Pillsbury sign in Minneapolis an hour earlier.
After being refurbished, the sign will be re-lit today. It hasn’t blazed over the city — where no flour is made anymore — since 2010.
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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