James Shiffer

Minneapolis

Editor at The Minnesota Star Tribune

Star Tribune editor overseeing coverage of climate, environment and human services. Public records enthusiast. Author of The King of Skid Row. 612 673-4116

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May 18, 2024 - Air Mail

May 17, 2024 | airmail.news | Sam Wasson |James Shiffer |Cathy Young |Linda Wells

WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A RELATIVE APOCALYPSE NOW OR NEVER WRITING ON THE HALLS BURN THE BOATS! DODGY LODGINGS WEDDING PLANNING THE WHITE-GLOVE TREATMENT BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Issue No. 253 The View from Here Why Francis Ford Coppola should be cherished for being the last great dreamer in Hollywood The Secret Daughter A battle over the estate of Mario D’Urso—the Italian banker and senator who epitomized the 1970s jet set—gets complicated when a daughter he didn’t know he had enters...
Mario D'Urso, His "Secret Daughter," and a Great Italian Estate Battle

May 17, 2024 | airmail.news | James Shiffer

Among the unknowable number of people who have been adopted as newborns, there are two camps. Those who feel a kinship with their birth families, and those who don’t. Many adoptees are happy to live with zero knowledge of their genetic forebears and birth stories. For others, whose past has been purposefully hidden, the need to know becomes an obsession. They spend huge amounts of time and money searching genealogy Web sites and offering DNA samples to hunt down their heritage.