Bob Collins
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
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.
You’ve been submitting your questions about the Northwest-Delta merger. We’ve been finding the answers. Here are more.
How long will it take to paint over Northwest?
The new airline’s headquarters will be in Atlanta, but the executive offices of Northwest will stay open. Gov. Pawlenty wants to know how that’ll work.
Why it’s important, one branding expert says, for Delta to wipe the Northwest name off the aviation map as quickly as possible.
Richard Anderson of Delta and Doug Steenland, boss at Northwest, are holding a conference call for investors.