Category Archives: True North

Too cynical? Yeah, right

May 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Free Speech, Night Writer, Politics, True North

by the Night Writer
Peter Bell, Chairman of the Metropolitan Council, had a commentary on the Strib’s editorial pages today with the headline “America Needs a Little Less Cynicism”. Being kind of a cynical person myself when it comes to the appointed bureaucrats of the Met Council, I expected some hand-wringing about how the toxic discourse [...]

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The bridges of Minneapolis and San Luis Rey, and the Tower of Siloam

August 10th, 2007 | Posted in Culture Nights, Night Writer, Spirit in the Night, True North

Who, what, when, where? Those are the first things we want to know when a disaster makes the news. Close on their heels comes the question hardest to answer: Why?
That question breaks into two parts, the physical and the metaphysical. Why did the bridge fail structurally, and why were these particular people apportioned [...]

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