Building a bridge is a monumental undertaking, and there is something inherent in projects of this size and scope that makes people want to participate in their creation. In the case of the sleek, new I-35W crossing over the Mississippi that opened in Minneapolis this week, Twin City residents engaged in a day-long discussion that [...]
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First Clothes
July 5, 2005 – 10:36 pm
Given how old I was feeling on my 42nd birthday, it was probably a mistake spending the day sorting through my son Emmet’s baby clothes, three bags full or, as he once sang the nursery rhyme, three bag fool. I was a three-bag fool all right, crying from the outset of this unavoidable rite of [...]