The video out of Bonney Park shows a pair of girls stomping, kicking, punching, kneeing, slapping and generally pummeling a man and a woman who are seated on the ground, offering no threat and putting up no defense. 

Street Talk: For some stories, a lovable and hardworking reporter is required to contact a whole lot of people.

Street Talk: A lot of rumors have absolutely no basis in reality, and yet they still have value.

For me, the most dreadful stories of them all are those where, in the glow of the police and ambulance lights, the pain is only just beginning. 

Street Talk: I’d go door to door preaching the word of the cold brew carafe if I thought it would help deliver you poor souls from that wretched paste you swill morning after morning. 

Street Talk: When the exchange of words was no longer enough, a plan was hatched. She would sneak out of her family home, travel up to Lewiston and at last, they would be in each other’s arms. 

The longer my beard grew, the more it seemed to antagonize people and I couldn’t go anywhere without enduring one snide remark or another.

Reading news through a digital medium is long on efficiency but short on charm. There’s a certain just-the-facts discipline about it that discourages dawdling when dawdling was always the kind of fun of reading a newspaper.