For more than 240 years, peoples the world over have been inspired to risk everything in pursuit of the ideals embodied in our country’s Declaration of Independence–the belief that all people are born with the right to freedom. Jefferson framed it in these now familiar words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that... READ MORE >
During the spring of 1969, while the Brits and French were busy launching their supersonic airliner, the Concorde, Merieta Altrichter was busy launching what would eventually become the World’s Best Donuts shop, located in Grand Marais, Minnesota. Hand-mixing her cake donuts in a plastic bowl tilted on its side, she offered a choice of plain, sugared and cinnamon sugared in... READ MORE >
“We live in a society plagued with ideological stereotypes, pigeonholing, typecasting, conventionalizing, categorizing, labeling, and imaging. If-and-only-if, you pledge yourself to a brand, an image, a label, the right cliché, the right clothes, or the right genre, then-and-only then, will you prove acceptable.” So writes prolific author, speaker, and clinician Dr. Asa Don Brown in a publication for the Canadian... READ MORE >
When Joe and Tina Marshall purchased a home in the picturesque West Virginia town of Monongah, situated where Booths Creek flows into the West Fork River, they soon discovered they could not dig in their yard without finding coal. The story behind their discovery is, curiously, linked to our nation’s first ceremony expressly in honor of fathers, a July 5,... READ MORE >
First the stuff we all know: Of Minnesota’s 87 counties, Cook County is the second-largest county in the state with over three-thousand-plus square miles. If we skip a county over– to our neighbors to the west–St. Louis County holds the record for the largest land area in the state; double that of Cook County with over six thousand square miles.... READ MORE >
“There are certain decisions that have been made over the last year and a half or so with some of the budgets and spending… and taxes have gone up and gone up and gone up.” “I see our biggest challenges right now are a lot of the big projects that are coming up that we really need to evaluate what... READ MORE >
A few months before my father passed away last spring, he asked that I bring him copies of two poems. Poems I can remember him referencing in my youth: Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar”–an extended metaphor comparing death to crossing the “sandbar” between the tide of life and death; and, “In Flanders Fields”–a war poem, written during the First... READ MORE >
James Madison, known as the champion of open government and the philosophical father of the Freedom of Information Act, has oft been misquoted. Michael Doyle, writing in a July/August 2002 article in the magazine Legal Affairs suggests, “The misquoting of Madison illustrates the limitations of legislative history, the propagation of literary error, and the dangers inherent in one of the... READ MORE >
Time passes and the moments gone… 20th century English writer and philosopher, Aldous Huxley, who authored nearly 50 books– as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems–maintained, “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” You can imagine any number of things falling into this “things” category. However, given Mother’s Day is just around the... READ MORE >
Who does it most affect? Media are replete with stories of the inevitable repercussions of leaders who have failed to hold themselves accountable. Roxi Hewertson, CEO of Highland Consulting Group, an executive recruiting firm, observed during a 2014 interview with Business News Daily, “We all know what good and bad leadership looks like and feels like. Once in the role,... READ MORE >
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