Those of us who watched Dragnet in the 60’s (or “Nick at Nite” reruns since) are very familiar with Joe Friday’s ability to cut through the emotion and haze of uncertainty and always get to the facts.  Detective work was very black and white – good versus evil; solid citizens ...

It’s been a warm winter in Lake Wobegon…or at least that’s how Garrison Keillor would start one of this winter’s monologues on “A Prairie Home Companion”.  It’s been so warm in Minnesota, that we even made this Sunday’s New York Times, with our ice fisherpeople and their trucks crashing ...