Vince Tuss

Twin Cities

Night Audience Editor at The Minnesota Star Tribune

@StarTribune audience editor. Ex-night owl who now wakes early, reader, sports fan, father of 3. Detroit born, now Mpls. “Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes”

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Where is my mind?

3 days ago | vtuss.substack.com | Vince Tuss

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Tuning in 'The Divided Dial': Katie Thornton fell in love with radio in Minneapolis and went on to explore the medium's power and promise

3 days ago | vtuss.substack.com | Vince Tuss

Katie Thornton fell in love with radio in her childhood bedroom in Minneapolis, listening to her friends on Radio K’s show for high school and junior high students. That passion for the medium has fueled her work, delivered lessons and put her on the global stage with “The Divided Dial,” a podcast series that has also aired on WNYC’s “On the Media” news program. Thanks for reading Where is my mind?! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
And now back to our regularly scheduled Lions disappointment

Jan 29, 2025 | vtuss.substack.com | Vince Tuss

We now know who’s going to the Super Bowl this season. And, for the 59th year, it won’t be the Detroit Lions. For more than two weeks, a post about the Lions, No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs and my hometown team, bounced around in my head. How the Lions offense was firing on all cylinders, how the defense was recovering from catastrophic injury, how not only had they advanced to become the top seed, they shed their identity as lovable losers to become favorites. Sentimental favorites even.
Inside the media maelstrom: Lessons learned on the campaign trail from the founders of the Blue Dot movement

Dec 10, 2024 | vtuss.substack.com | Vince Tuss

As a news consumer, I usually come to a story as a blank slate: Maybe a little background knowledge, but rarely firsthand experience. But this campaign season, the tables turned as good family friends in Nebraska built a grass-roots movement into taking advantage of the state’s rules for allocating into electoral votes by congressional districts and ensuring that Omaha and the Second Congressional District was a “blue dot” in normally dyed-red Nebraska.
Post-holiday thoughts: Still here, thankful for small-town helpers and looking ahead to something new

Dec 2, 2024 | vtuss.substack.com | Vince Tuss

It’s been a minute between posts, so just a few words to let you know I’m still pecking away here. (You do know that October and November were pretty chock full o’news?) Call it a notebook dump:I’ve been puzzling a while for a way to recharge this space, and over some postelection time off, I had an idea for a post based on an interview. While it’s not necessarily reporting, the talking is done and the percolating has begun. I hope to have something put together next week.
Talkin' baseball, past, present and future

Jul 11, 2024 | vtuss.substack.com | Vince Tuss

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Memories ... like the corner of my card table

Jul 1, 2024 | vtuss.substack.com | Vince Tuss

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Memories ... like the corner of my card table

Jul 1, 2024 | vtuss.substack.com | Vince Tuss

“Can we play SOME PITCH?!?!?”These summer nights, that cry comes sometime after the middle boy’s bedtime snack. And his parents, my wife and I, are more than happy to oblige. We grew up playing cards, and our boys now have caught the fever. And for something this summer nondigital that has them using their minds, we are happy to oblige. With that comes a flood of memories. Thanks for reading Where is my mind?! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
'That's highly significant': The joy of old media and family shorthand

Apr 23, 2024 | vtuss.substack.com | Vince Tuss

It was a quiet moment in the church pew on Sunday. The pastor had just started his homily, a meditation on Christ the Good Shepherd, one that involved a previous post-Easter Sunday at home, after Mass, listening to classical music. What popped on but Bach’s “Sheep May Safely Graze.” Our pastor positively waxed about feeling transformed with the aura of a job well done.
You boys ain't from around here, are ya?

Mar 26, 2024 | vtuss.substack.com | Vince Tuss

The Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit, along the Detroit River. Via Ken Lund and Wikimedia Commons. The landscape of my childhood is disappearing. Has disappeared, actually. Earlier this month, two huge smokestacks about 2 miles away from my childhood home were demolished. They joined the smaller stacks felled at some unremembered time.