In Minneapolis, all-encompassing immigration story tests a newsroom in midst of digital transition With the eyes of a nation upon it, the Minnesota immigration enforcement effort has tested a local newsroom in the midst of a digital transformation — and it hasn't left the local journalists overmatc...

Great to see so many of my former colleagues get well-deserved credit for their amazing work and an opportunity to describe what it's been like in a newsroom that has covered way too much tragedy over the past year. apnews.com/article/immi...

Why do Minnesotans call them 'parking ramps' instead of 'garages'? The auto-related regionalism is unique to Minnesota and some nearby states.

And @katyread.bsky.social at @startribune.com

When he attends industry conventions, "I call ours 'garages' because I don't want to answer the question, 'What's a ramp?'"

www2.startribune.com/parking-ramp... (should be no paywall to read this article)

So instead of being a sad sentence or two in a story largely about the bigger tragedy that he had died, it became focus of a whole sad story about his mistake that someone else wrote after investigating on Monday.

I once wrote about a DNR guy who drowned after jumping without a lifejacket to save someone, despite having given many lectures about the importance of lifejackets. His coworkers refused to comment on whether he'd worn one, even though it would be obvious in the report.

This guy and his friends, by making clear that he left essential equipment behind despite knowing better, are avoiding a mistake I encountered as a Saturday shift reporter. Just say it in the first place.

Thank you for that! Good to be here.

A plunge through thin ice, a panic and a struggle for safety A veteran ice angler and volunteer emergency responder recalled a frightening plunge into a central Minnesota lake, lending truth to the unreliability of ice thickness.

I'd like to devote my first Bluesky post to this gripping story by my college Bob Timmons about a guy's fall through ice on a lake. www.startribune.com/a-plunge-thr...

Thanks for remembering it, though!

Yes! Although more like "you *were* exploring." My %&#@ job has drawn my attention away from my "real writing." I need to get back to it.

Sounds like a great book! I hadn't heard of it but it's now on my list.

I was thinking this exact thing yesterday! John/Jack is a little weird; trade a four-letter one-syllable formal name for a different four-letter one-syllable nickname -- why? But this one's even weirder.

Well, people do quote Hannah Arendt (especially lately!).