After watching Elmo suffer a fiery demise, I went south to Minneapolis for a day to see my girlfriend Kristin’s 17-month old son Evan the day after he had heart surgery to repair three holes in his heart and a leaking mitral valve. It’s pretty amazing to think that technology and healthcare have advanced to...
The Dog Blog is back and today we feature the king of all hot dogs: The Marshall Dog. I wouldn’t have come across this hot dog if it wasn’t for the urging of my former co-worker Rick Weegman. He swore by the awesomeness of this hot dog and how it was significantly better than the...
The Minnesota State Boys Hockey tournament at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul is a four-day whirl of athleticism, emotions, pain and partying. Each of the games feature a little bit of all these traits and I got to see them up close this past week. I photographed Duluth East and Virginia for the...
This past Friday at 2:36pm I walked out of the Duluth News Tribune and sat down in my car. I watched my photo editor Bob King, photographer Clint Austin and some fellow reporters walk back into the building. I wasn’t leaving for an assignment, but instead had just been laid off. It wasn’t unexpected. Our...
