Pro/con: Will the Affordable Care Act affect doctors?

Yes: System doesn’t value their worth

• No: Effects will ease as new law takes effect
• Coming Sunday

Pro/con: Will the Affordable Care Act affect doctors?

No: Effects will ease as new law takes effect

Urgency to get outdoors grows as we age

Sam Cook column: Up along a river on the North Shore, the steelhead angler said something that seemed to transcend the simple act of fishing. He said he didn’t know how much longer he’d be able to fish like this. He is at that place where most of us will get one day.

• Sam Cook

'Office' offered pleasant satisfaction in final season

HANK STUEVER: The end of NBC's "The Office" arrives tonight not only to lowered expectations but with the added dents and scrapes of viewer neglect and covered in the duct tape that has held it together for the final two seasons of its charming and successful nine-season run.

• The Office

Monday with Mitch: Staying with the whole family

We’ve spent decades squeezing more and more in, while squeezing our family out.

• Mitch Albom

Sunday with Mitch: A Mother’s Day wish

She said, “Come, here, baby.” And I reached for her.

Rick Lubbers column: UMD rugby has suddenly become a big deal

You can’t film a summer blockbuster like “Iron Man 3” with the indie film budget of “The Blair Witch Project.”

Sam Cook: Moms made for outdoors

Maybe Minnesota’s moms are behind this late ice-out scenario. Maybe they just got a little weary of sharing their Mother’s Day weekend with the opening weekend of Minnesota’s fishing season.

• Sam Cook

Different styles lead to same results for local boxing champs

Apart from their God-given ability to deliver Richter scale-rattling punches, Duluth’s two professional boxing champions couldn’t be more dissimilar.

• Al “The Haitian Temptation” Sands
• Gary “Stone Cold” Eyer

A judge's view: Alcohol a bad mix for high school graduation parties

Although it has felt like winter, prom and graduation parties are just around the corner. This time of year reminds me of a graduation party I attended a few years ago here in Duluth.

National view: Obama should make GOP feel pain of cuts

President Obama had the opportunity this week to make an irresponsible Congress face the consequences of its own dumb actions. For reasons I cannot fathom, he took a pass.

• Eugene Robinson

National view: Obama’s spectacular fall came quickly

Fate is fickle, power cyclical, and nothing is new under the sun. Especially in Washington.

• Charles Krauthammer

It’s time to get down and dirty

SAM COOK: No matter what manner of physical activity you pursue this time of year, you’re looking for trouble.

• Sam Cook

A chance encounter with the power and violence of ice-out at Tettegouche (with video)

ANDREW KRUEGER: Perhaps Mother Nature wanted to teach me a lesson. Sitting on rocks alongside the Baptism River in Tettegouche State Park on Monday, savoring the sights and sounds of High Falls, I dared to take my iPhone out of my pocket.

• Baptism River before ice-out
• Baptism River after ice-out

Collins did his part, now it’s our turn

JIM LITKE: It says something, nearly all of it good, that on the day a male athlete in one of the major American pro sports came as out as gay, the reaction from the NBA, fellow ballplayers and fans was almost uniformly positive.

• Jason Collins