Than TibbettsFlint, Mich., contemplates sweeping demolition as a way to save itself.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Than Tibbetts
A poignant story is supposed to remind us just how much we’ll miss newspapers when they’re gone.
It’s hard enough to build a baseball stadium for less than a billion dollars these days. How about a nationwide network of high-speed trains?
Your Monday morning motivator
Ely announces bid for 2016 Olympics
NASA’s Earth Observatory has released incredible images of the swollen Red River when it was at its record crest.
While Bob takes a well-deserved day off after covering the flood in Moorhead — if you haven’t read the [Saving Riverview Circle series](http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/floods/), please do — Steve Mullis and I will be house-sitting here at News Cut today. A quick flood update… well, [it’s snowing now](http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/31/flood_tuesday/). A lot. Perhaps the linguists among us can help Read more →
Island Park Levee
Twin Cities readers and writers might see these words as an omen: “Denver can’t support two newspapers any longer.”