Street talk: Robertson lived a tough life in recent years, as all homeless do. But while he was living that life, as his family was thinking about him, Robertson was thinking about them.
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Mark LaFlamme: Various body parts for Mother’s Day
Celebrate like Braveheart. Screech like a baby. And kisses for Mom. We get to the bottom of it!
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Mark LaFlamme: Local homeless grieve the loss of one of their own
Street Talk: If not for a brief news story and scuttlebutt among the homeless population, few would know about Dave’s death, or that he had existed at all.
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Mark LaFlamme: Please don’t scream at, curse at or generally mistreat employees serving up soft serve
Talk of the Town: Screaming at the teenager getting your raspberry streusel, and other joys of spring.
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Mark LaFlamme: Chewed up and spit out: Couple overwhelmed by legal system in Minot tenant dispute
Street Talk: ‘I’ve always done the right thing,’ said Ann, the 75-year-old owner of a house in Minot, ‘and now there’s a squatter destroying my house and there’s nothing I can do about it.’
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Mark LaFlamme: Ice cream wars, kite tragedies and free money
Talk of the Town: There’s a lot of wind blowing around these parts, a lot of wind. And whatnot…
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Mark LaFlamme: On the veterinarian shortage and its casualties
Losing a pet is an emotional trauma no matter what the circumstances. But lose one when maybe a simple shot, pill or surgery could have saved the animal and now you can add elements of guilt and failure to that pile of grief.
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Mark LaFlamme: What’s in YOUR junk pile?
Talk of the Town: Ah spring, when a young man’s fancy lightly turns to screaming at snowbanks.
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Mark LaFlamme: Sweet words from secret squirrel sources
If a police beat reporter doesn’t have a good fleet of secret squirrel sources, he is stuck day after day waiting for the OFFICIAL WORD to come down from city hall, the police department or some political mouthpiece.
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Mark LaFlamme: I think I might have been raptured, but in the wrong direction
Talk of the Town: Don’t bother me, can’t you see I’m planning for my next TOTALITY!