James Fallows, the correspondent for The Atlantic, has always had a soft spot for Duluth. The plane that he flies around the country, reporting on America’s overlooked communities, was built there.
So it’s not surprising that he gave the city a heaping helping of love in the CBS Sunday Morning segment on towns on the rise that included a beermaker in Duluth.
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.
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