There’s so much lovely irony in the news today that Washington Post columnist Christopher Ingraham has decided to move to Red Lake County in Minnesota. Newcomers spend a lifetime trying to find welcoming souls in the state, and all Ingraham had to do was write something nasty about the place. Read more →
Mitt Romney stepped into the fray of the 2016 presidential race today with a speech aimed straight at Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner. Read more →
In our growing collection, we’ve read plenty of powerful essays on the nature of mental health, depression, and suicide, but we’re hard pressed to recall one as powerful as that for Aletha Pinnow, who took her own life in Duluth last month.
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Louella Mae Snider provided the soundtrack for one of the best bars in America. Read more →
North of Thunder Bay, Ontario yesterday, Norman Shewaybick kept a promise to his wife. He would drag an oxygen tank on a toboggan more than 300 miles, an oxygen tank that would have saved her life had the nursing station not run out. Read more →
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