It’s Pete Seeger’s 93rd birthday today and I try not to let the occasion pass on NewsCut each year. No sense repeating myself, I suppose.
“It’s not enough to say ‘you have rights,'” former Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines once said of Seeger. “You have to use them.”
Nothing scares people in power like a person who can carry a tune.
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