No doubt, giving up the city life and moving to the country roads of Minnesota can seem an idyllic life for a lot of people. And for a lot of people, it is.
For pregnant women, however, living in rural Minnesota comes with significant risks, an article this week on STAT reveals. Read more →
Stillwater Area Schools’ Oak-Land Junior High School posted suicide awareness phone numbers and a few pieces of advice on how to talk about the problem. That’s almost always a sign that a student has died by suicide. Read more →
Konrad Reuland, a 29-year-old tight end for the Baltimore Ravens, died in mid-December of the brain aneurysm that struck him down in November. He wasn’t a great NFL star. He was waived seven times in a very brief career which is why, perhaps, his death merited a few paragraphs in the usual places. Read more →
It’s hard to imagine a more difficult and stressful job than being a security monitor on the University of Minnesota campus, charged with keeping people from jumping off the Washington Avenue bridge. Read more →
Dr. Anupam Jena, of Harvard Medical School, looked at 11 major U.S. marathons — the Twin Cities Marathon included — and a decade’s worth of heart attacks for Medicare patients. He found that on marathon days, the mortality rate increased by about 15 percent.
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Maybe cutting health care for the mentally ill, the elderly, and the disabled is simply the price of freedom, a price someone else will bear so that we may enjoy its benefits. Read more →
This is World Down Syndrome Day and an ad agency suggests we use the opportunity to consider the phrase ‘special needs.’
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U of M engineering student Collin Brown got his diploma yesterday after university president Eric Kaler agreed to hold the ceremony early so that Brown’s dad could see his son get a diploma. Read more →
A year ago, a report said the Veterans Administration crisis hotline was putting vets on hold. Politicians said all the things you’d expect politicians to say. The VA said it was hiring additional staff to comply with the inspector general’s report. And then nothing really changed.
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The Rochester Post Bulletin today carries the story that easily fits in the ‘ain’t life interesting’ category, unless you’re not awestruck by the notion that a family escapes a gulag in Siberia and, because it did, a doctor becomes the ‘savior’ of the governor of Minnesota. Read more →
This is the time of the year when Arizona is one of the smartest states in the nation. Arizona doesn’t spring forward or fall back. It leaves its clocks alone. Read more →
The best thing about asking a question — especially a stupid question — is that there are plenty of people who’ll gladly answer it, and make you look even more foolish in the process. Read more →
It’s not quite clear whether Edina thinks raising the smoking age to 21 is merely a message or whether the city believes it will make a difference. Read more →
Salome Karwah, who represented the Time Person of the Year two years ago after fighting the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, seemed invincible.
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Alan Linda has written his last column for the Fergus Falls Daily Journal.
That’s what a column featuring the complaint about sitting next to an overweight person on an airplane will do to you. Read more →
Bob Collins