The end has come for Daniel Fleetwood, the Star Wars fan who got to see the upcoming The Force Awakens episode as his last wish. I wrote his story here.
He didn’t think he’d make it to next month’s premier of the movie. He was right, his wife reported on her Facebook page this morning.
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