Bob CollinsIt is either a feature or a bug — after all these years, I’m still not sure which — that a good conscience never lets go.
It punishes us for the transgressions of our youth. Read more →
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Laboring in intended anonymity, Jeff Sandell created a legion of followers by listening to police scanners. Read more →
Ali Mohamed Dahir was among several dozen who became new citizens during a naturalization ceremony on St. Paul’s Harriet Island. Like his fellow new family members, his story is worth telling. Read more →
Henry Howe, an attorney and owner of spot of land in the city’s downtown, is letting goatsbeard flowers grow because that’s what he likes.
Who’s to say he can’t? The Grand Forks Health Department, which has ordered him to mow the land. Read more →
Hobby Lobby is an arts and crafts store that caters to a Christian clientele and it makes no apologies for doing so.
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People are already staking out parade viewing spots for a parade that doesn’t start until Friday evening. Read more →
A gentleman in Nisswa went old school when it came to saving a spot for the town’s 4th of July parade on Sunday evening. He saved his spot by actually occupying it. Read more →
A boat provides he perfect location to watch fireworks over Hudson, Wis. Read more →
Goodhue County is looking for the driver of a Ford Focus who couldn’t be bothered with detours, it reports on its Facebook page. Read more →
I find pride in finding people — often older people– giving up a piece of a holiday weekend to do something for the benefit of someone else. Read more →
What will be the most creative use of household goods to declare ‘dibs’ at parade viewing routes in Minnesota? Read more →
Christopher Ingraham, the Washington Post reporter who started a riotous response to declaring Red Lake County the worst place to live in America decided to move there. And he likes it, the Grand Forks Herald says. Read more →
‘Don’t live scared,’ a father-to-be said he’d like to teach his kid.
It’s a neat trick since the prospect of becoming a father is often horrifying.
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Social media has a good chuckle over a grandmother who thought there was a human at the other end of Google. Read more →
If you’re like most people, you probably have the occasional head-shaking moment when a memory of something you did as a kid causes a moment of guilt and self-loathing.
Tom Caldwell, CEO of Caldwell Securities Ltd., of Toronto, does.
That’s why he took out this ad this month in Canadian Jewish News. Read more →