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Holding up a mirror on community and country

by KERRI THORESON
| September 17, 2025 1:00 AM

As a newspaper columnist, I don’t do work that would be considered heroic or dangerous. Sometimes, as someone who weaves words, observes and documents, life can be so overwhelmingly complex, cruel or stunningly simple that words become elusive. Regardless, those moments, including happy birthday wishes, deserve to be etched.

Since 1990, I’ve written this weekly column primarily shining the light on people in our community or holding the mirror up when really amazing or sometimes really tragic things take place. I’m grateful to live where I do, and for my long affiliation with a company that trusts me with a bully pulpit to share my observations each week.

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