Street Talk: People have done studies on this and it turns out that our ability to live in harmony together may rely on its findings.
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Mark LaFlamme: In Clown World, everything is in short supply
The shortage of lawyers to defend indigent criminal suspects in our area has turned deadly. And this on top of a labor shortage that finds people scrambling for doctors, dentists, veterinarians, auto mechanics and other professionals who can’t keep up with demand for their services.
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Mark LaFlamme: High-tech burglars can beam through your walls
Street Talk: A person doesn’t have to leave the house to get mugged anymore. Internet scams are coming faster and faster, and as technology improves, so do the talents of the wretches behind all this bad business.
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Mark LaFlamme: Homeless man dead but not forgotten
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: 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: 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: 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: Turns out the eclipse WAS pretty awesome
Street Talk: For a long moment, it felt as though the world had taken a brief timeout so that its complex human inhabitants could take a moment to reflect upon their existence.
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Mark LaFlamme: Forever in search of the perfect sleep concoction
Street Talk: When you have trouble accessing sleep on the reg, you end up searching endlessly for the perfect panacea that you remain convinced is out there.
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Mark LaFlamme: A death-faking beetle and other oddities borne of pure desperation
Street Talk: Why spend precious minutes writing a column when I can have unsuspecting fools on Facebook write one for me?