Fairness, When It's Due
Over the years we've taken our fair share of whacks at Star Tribune columnist Doug Grow as well as fellow writer Nick Coleman, who recently joined Grow at the paper. In fact Saint Paul has his own specially engraved Coleman whacking stick.
The two gentlemen are promoted by the paper as general interest columnists, but usually their interests involve guilt inducing tales of victimization heavily infused with leftist political overtones. Neither man has ever met a homeless person they didn't like or couldn't write extensively about.
That's why it was such a breathe of fresh air to pick up Sunday's paper and discover that each of the scribes had written stories that were actually interesting, with no political drum beating. Coleman's piece was on pick-up hockey games at The Lake of The Isles , while Grow wrote on a couple of local men who have "adopted" a platoon of US soldiers in Iraq. Good, solid writing that didn't make me want to hurl my java mug against the wall. Was that so hard guys?
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