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Duluth was treated to Mother Natures softer side during Grandmas Marathon weekend so much so that the News Tribune pointed it out in the headline of a follow-up story Monday. What she brought out ...
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Monday with Mitch: Honor us ... maybe 
MITCH ALBOM: Assuming you have made it this far, please accept our offer of a cap, gown and hood, plus a wonderful spread of coffee and assorted pastries.
By Mitch Albom , April 29, 2013
Before ‘42,’ interracial teams barnstormed the Northland
Robin Washington column: ‘42’ is a classic based-on-a-true story biopic. Making the rounds concurrent with the movie is “Color Blind: The Forgotten Team that Broke Baseball’s Color Line” by Tom Dunkel, the story of a semipro team formed in Bismarck, N.D., in 1933, well before Robinson’s signing with Brooklyn in 1947.
By Robin Washington , April 28, 2013
National view: President Bush made us secure, safe
Clare Boothe Luce liked to say that “a great man is one sentence.” Presidents, in particular. The most common “one sentence” for George W. Bush is: “He kept us safe.”
By Charles Krauthammer , April 28, 2013
National view: Bush's legacy was torture and debt that hobble us
In retrospect, George W. Bush’s legacy doesn’t look as bad as it did when he left office. It looks worse.
By Eugene Robinson , April 28, 2013
Pro/con: Should the Boy Scouts allow gay members and leaders?
Yes: Scouts should embrace all Americans
By Lynn Woolsey , April 27, 2013
Pro/con: Should the Boy Scouts allow gay members and leaders?
No: Scouts must defend long-held convictions
By Tony Perkins , April 27, 2013
Contrite call sends good vibe
Sam Cook column: It was hard to tell where this call was going. “I unfortunately met you on the Lakewalk yesterday,” a woman’s voice was saying.
By Sam Cook , April 26, 2013
Tuesday with Mitch: We can’t protect everything from terrorism
MITCH ALBOM: Danger. Terror. I remember an interview in a bad Detroit neighborhood. When I approached a couch in the small front room, the mother said to me, “Don’t sit there. They can shoot you through the window.”
By Mitch Albom , April 23, 2013
After suspect’s capture, city on a hill shines again
ROBIN WASHINGTON: The streets and landmarks were exactly as I knew them: I had walked along Norfolk Street in Cambridge, just down from where the Tsarnaevs now lived, visiting a
By Robin Washington , April 21, 2013
We choose to put up with more
SAM COOK: One morning last weekend, I rose early and took my book to the patio. No breeze stirred. The water in the pool was glass. Nobody else was up.
By Sam Cook , April 19, 2013
Duluth is deserving of ‘Hockeytown, USA’ title
RICK LUBBERS: It’s time for Duluth to stake its claim as “Hockeytown, USA.”
By Rick Lubbers , April 17, 2013
Sam Cook column: How much more of this can we endure?
Sam Cook column: Not again. There we were, once more, excised from our daily lives, punching up the horrific video online, watching the televised replays, tuned to the terrorism experts trying to provide perspective on yet another tale of terror.
By Sam Cook , April 16, 2013
Their tragedy is our tragedy
ROBIN WASHINGTON: One year, I got the easy assignment. As long as nobody seriously got hurt — and you sincerely hoped not, for their sake and yours — the medical tent was one-stop shopping for compelling stories. Their bodies would be shivering, wrapped in space blankets, testifying to human endurance. Their faces beamed personal achievement.
By Robin Washington , April 16, 2013
Monday with Mitch: A man for mankind
Detroit is a city whose treasures are often hidden; and tucked away on the second floor of the federal courthouse in Detroit, a cold monolith of concrete and steel, sits one of them: a treasure of a man. His name is Damon Keith. Born on the Fourth of July, he has graced this Earth for more than
By Mitch Albom , April 15, 2013
Local view: When will we ever learn?
Our growing, crippling debt didn’t originate because of local issues like education. The reasons are several, including the previous administration’s decision to fight two wars on a credit card and to reduce taxes at a time when additional tax money sorely was needed.
By Bernie Hughes , April 12, 2013
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