Every day we look at the day’s news and try to answer a question: Who are we? What kind of people are we?
Really, it’s an impossible question and an impossible answer. We’re a lot of different things.
But that’s not going to stop us from declaring that we’re a people who stop to help a rabbit in the midst of a devastating inferno.
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This is Max. He’s 25 years old. Mentally, he’s about 5 years old, his sister wrote this week. Read more →
Detroit has given its residents every reason to give up. Some people don’t give up. Read more →
They don’t call the kids on the Caledonia High School football team “champs” for nothing, and it’s not just because they beat Pipestone 57-to-6 on Friday to win the state Class AA football championship, their eighth title in the last 11 years. Read more →
Stacey Elsenpeter, of Andover, got the Ellen DeGeneres treatment in a segment that aired today when the show surprised Elsenpeter, a single mom who participated in a parent-kidney exchange to find a match for her son, Zach, who was born with kidney failure.
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ere’s your daily dose of bittersweetness.
Sweet because there are police officers who put homeless people up at a motel at their own expensive. Read more →
A gift shop in Bemidji that raised money for the poor of Eastern Uganda is closing, and that’s bad news for the homeless of Bemidji. Read more →
Langendorff and his neighbor will be the poster boys for gun advocates, just as Kelley will be the focus of gun opponents.
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Washington County deputies never expected anything back from the attention they paid to Margo Alice Forrest, who never married, never had kids, lived alone and kept to herself, the Pioneer Press’ Mary Divine writes today. Read more →
We’re not above poking fun at the state to the east but there’s nothing but love for Wisconsin this morning, which provides us with a needed reminder that decency is still in style. Read more →
You can do a lot worse than being a 91-year-old man in Erhard, Minn. (pop. 149), at least if your name is Windy Ferm. Read more →
Every now and again, we need a recalibration of our consideration of things that are important. Usually it involves a story about how outrageously unfair life is.
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There wasn’t much a Green Bay cop could do to make things better other than what he says cops usually do.
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Chris Rosati, who suffered from ALS, died yesterday after a few more hours of suffering when he decided to have doctors remove the tracheal tube that helped him breathe and stay alive.
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Harvey Djerf, 95, of Plymouth, Minn., likes to walk every day but 95-year-olds can’t walk far before requiring a rest.
So in his neighborhood now, random chairs have appeared along driveways and lawns, KARE 11 reports.
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Bob Collins