Jennifer Brooks’ story about Melissa and Mark Hortman lying in state earns a Spotty ™
Although outside the usual material considered for a Spotty™ award, the Star Tribune’s Jennifer Brooks (and her colleagues who contributed to the story) earn a Spotty™ for the June 28th front page story, Minnesota’s greatest honor for a family’s great loss. (gift link) It begins this way:
For Melissa Hortman’s last day at work, they draped her coffin with pink flowers and filled the cold marble under the Minnesota Capitol dome with the green and growing things that she loved.
I commend Jennifer’s lyric story about the Hortmans and the people who came to pay their respects.
A Spotty™ is awarded for an article, op-ed piece, or letter to the editor I wish I had written myself.
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