MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE – As the commercials rolled during one of his final TV broadcasts, Jeff Passolt ’81 took a swig from his lucky plastic bottle that he refills with fresh water every night.
“He calls it going green,” said chief meteorologist Ian Leonard, piping in from the set’s weather station. “I call it staying cheap.”
It’s that kind of good-natured ribbing that the 61-year-old anchor will miss most when he signs off Sunday after 23 years as a lead anchor for Fox 9, a streak that has made him one of the most long-standing and popular newscasters in Twin Cities history.
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Passolt made a name for himself as a hockey star for St. Cloud State University, but he also scored with the bosses during a 1981 internship at WTCN (now KARE), so much so that they put him on the air when weekend anchor Dick Bremer called in sick.
