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Martin Tolchin, the founding publisher of The Hill and a 40-year veteran of The New York Times who covered New York’s City Hall and Congress and wrote several books on the power of patronage in politics, died Thursday at the age of 93.  

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What happens when you become a parent to your parents? That's what longtime NPR journalist Kitty Eisele had to figure out when she became a full-time caregiver for her dad. After moving back to her childhood home, she finds herself bewildered by the medical, legal, and emotional challenges of elder-care, to say nothing of the time her dad headed out on a 300-mile road trip without telling her. Kitty manages doctors' appointments and hospital stays, finds outpatient and assisted living ...

What happens when you become a parent to your parents? That's what longtime NPR journalist Kitty Eisele had to figure out when she became a full-time caregiver for her dad. After moving back to her childhood home, she finds herself bewildered by the medical, legal, and emotional challenges of elder-care, to say nothing of the time her dad headed out on a 300-mile road trip without telling her. Kitty manages doctors' appointments and hospital stays, finds outpatient and assisted living ...

Remembering my friend Al Eisele By Chuck Hunt - Editor | Jul 11, 2021 Someone I considered a good friend (despite having spent very little time together in person) died last week. Blue Earth native son, Albert “Al” Eisele, passed away on Tuesday, June 29, just one day after his 85th birthday. He died of congestive heart failure at an assisted-living facility in Falls Church, Virginia. Who is Al Eisele, you may ask. Eisele was a veteran newspaper editor and a member of the Washington press...

© Getty Images When Walter “Fritz” Mondale returned to Minnesota in 1987 to practice law, several people at the firm he joined applied for the job as his secretary. The one who was selected, Lynda Pedersen, applied because of who Mondale had been. She stayed for the next  33 years, including three in Japan when Fritz was our ambassador. She left her husband at home running their family marina because Fritz and his wife Joan had asked her to come with them.  Lynda stayed for more than thr...

In the many years since he left Washington, it seemed that whenever I called the Mondale residence in Minnesota, the former vice president was always out walking the dogs. Those daily excursions gave so much pleasure to Walter Mondale that his former speechwriter, Marty Kaplan, said it wasn’t always clear who was walking whom. A New Deal and labor liberal, Mondale, who died Monday at age 93, had an old-fashioned view of politics as public...