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School districts differ on protests
School districts are caught in the middle in an upcoming national protest against school shootings. And they do not agree on how it should be handled.
From all indications, Newsweek is exhibiting a death rattle this week. It started when the magazine retracted its story suggesting that 'bots' took down Sen. Al Franken.
That old joke about Minnesotans being willing to give you directions to anywhere but their home is case aside by a lovely story in the Star Tribune about two families that have eaten together once a week for 30 years.
The wisdom of a dying man
'One life can give so many gifts,' Jim Walsh writes, "a sad fact that we realize profoundly when death comes calling.'