Bob CollinsFor a brief, shining moment last year, the nation was consumed with the scandal at the Veterans Administration, where veterans were denied medical treatment or had to wait months to get it.
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As most any parent can tell you, sooner or later the words you hear coming out of your mouth, are the same ones your parents used.
That is to say: We parent the way we were parented. We may think we’re more enlightened as parents, but we’re not, and a study out today confirms that in at least one area of parenting: spanking.
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We’re apparently never going to know the name of the persons who saved the life of Jennifer Green when she was jumped from a bridge over Faribault’s Straight River in 1990. They want to remain anonymous, a report today says. Read more →
We haven’t heard much about the ebola outbreak since the polls closed on Election Day in the United States, but today the last ebola patient left a hospital in Liberia. Read more →
Finding critics of MNsure, the state health exchange, isn’t hard. But when Tom Forsythe says it’s time to bury the current version of the troubled operation, he commands some attention; he’s on the MNsure board of directors. Read more →
If there’s a fight over farming and freedom, it probably involves milk. Read more →
The efforts of Pioneer Press reporter Mara Gottfried to help find the family of a homeless vet who froze to death in a St. Paul park is the type of story to make you want to call that relative with whom you’ve lost touch. Read more →
An Italian surgeon says the age of head transplants may be at hand. Read more →
Elizabeth Jensen, the new NPR ombudsman, is tackling a favorite subject for us today: At what point is a journalist unable to function as a journalist because of first-person experiences with an issue? Read more →
In Michigan, a pediatrician refuses to provide care to the daughter of lesbian parents. It would be illegal in Minnesota. Read more →
Oliver Sacks, 81, the neurologist and author, found out he’s dying soon. He writes today about his new outlook on life and wants us to rethink our own lives.
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Unlike his funeral this week, there were no big stars in Boston yesterday to remember David Carr, the Minnesota native and New York Times media critic who died last week. There were only kids — students in Carr’s class at Boston University.
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Today’s release of the review of MNsure from the Office of the Legislative Auditor leaves a big question for MNsure’s board of directors: What were you thinking when you put such incompetence on the payroll? Read more →
Your daily dose of sweetness today comes from KARE 11’s Lindsey Seavert, who has the story of Allen Zderad, 68, of Forest Lake. Read more →
Should there be a scarlet letter for parents who don’t vaccinate their children?
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