At Hersh Goldberg-Polin's funeral his family makes no calls for revenge. They could be forgiven if they did. Instead, they speak of their love for Hersh. His curiosity. His desire to understand people. His convictions for peace. They are the best among us. So was he.

It's easy to see where Hersh's compassion came from. On what is easily the worst day of her life, Rachel Goldberg-Polin is thanking everyone for their efforts to bring her son home and hoping his death will act as a catalyst to bring the other hostages home alive. She'd have

Six hostages, including an American, were murdered by Hamas. Despite the murder of innocence, including one of our own, there are too many in America who embrace a warped worldview that reserves more empathy for the murderers than for the murdered— that portrays the murderers

Terrific journalism by Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl of Pioneer Press sharing perspectives about an important St Paul intersection - Univ Av & Snelling twincities.com/2024/09/01/st-…

BREAKING: The US government has filed charges against senior Hamas officials for the murder and kidnapping of at least 43 American citizens on October 7th and the following months. Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, Marwan Issa, Ismail Haniyeh, and other militants are indicted on the

Hamas stole a beautiful young woman and tortured her for 11 months before executing her with a bullet to the head. HAS ANYONE HEARD ANYTHING FROM ANY OF THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS GROUPS?

SCREAMING THE ISRAELI ANTHEM IN PARIS Israeli Paralympic swimmer Ami Dadoan won a second gold medal, swimming the 200 meter freestyle in 2:49.26 minutes. WATCH as he literally screams “Hatikva” from the gold medal podium… Let’s go Israel!!!

Sadly, parents of teens need to remind their youngsters that some work supervisors will try to exploit them sexually. Sometimes teens will need family help to reject & challenge this behavior startribune.com/charges-manage…

A positive view of immigrants impact on public schools - something that's also been true in St Paul and I suspect in many other communities: nytimes.com/2024/09/05/nyr…

Congratulations Chicago Cubs on a combined no-hitter. I saw a lot of their games as a kid and never saw anything like this. mlb.com/news/shota-ima…

This is different - huge Kansas City Chiefs fan who traveled all over the country to see their games pleads guilty to robbing banks to pay for his travel, sentenced to 17.5 years startribune.com/17-years-in-pr…

Have you ever wondered why Arab countries won’t take in the Palestinians? Here’s why.

Early childhood teacher has written a book to help little children feel more comfortable starting nursery school hometownsource.com/sun_thisweek/c…

"Trump often gets away with doing and saying things that would spell certain death for any other politician. He can denigrate veterans and then be celebrated by the military...he can brag about sexual assault," nytimes.com/2024/08/31/us/…

A decade ago Joan Rivers told you what you need to hear today.

Huge congrats to the para-Olympians hometownsource.com/sun_thisweek/s…

So glad this decision was made. Street car would have cost billions, enhanced bus millions. And bus won't require new bridge over the Mississippi or years of construction on 7th street. THX RamseyCounty for listening.