We Minnesotans like to think of ourselves as tough, hardy people, reveling in winter's wrath, embracing the climate's hardships. A lot of us are...
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Springtime is rarely a time for looking back, even if it is only to last November. Spring seems to be more of an optimistic, hopeful time of year with...
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Every once in a blue moon a kid from the neighborhood in St. Paul makes it big. Joe Mauer, all-star catcher for the Minnesota Twins, falls into that...
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Sam Ayres lived during The Great Depression, grew up in central Nebraska, was a gunners mate in the Navy during WWll, lived in California, and...
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The Great Recession met the Great Depression next door to me. I grew up hearing of The Great Depression. My father, born in 1916, was a young man and...
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My neighborhood has some medical issues. So does yours. Nine years ago, the World Health Organization made the first real effort to rank the health...
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Sarah Jane Olson, aka Kathleen Solia, is coming home to my neighborhood after serving seven years in a California jail. Kathleen Solia, aka Sarah...
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The third week of March is the most triumphant time of the year around these neighborhoods. The Minnesota Boys State Hockey Championship is here once...
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People are not buying things. Not in South St. Paul, not anywhere. There's a lot of stuff around but it's just sitting there collecting dust and...
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Hot shot lawyer Joe Friedberg made a bewildering mistake in the most expensive trial in Minnesota history. Here's the essence: Landslide Norm Coleman...
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