A few winter constellations, most notably Gemini the Twins and Auriga the Charioteer, are still hanging out in the western evening sky, but for the most part, the spring constellations have taken over. They’re not as flashy as those of winter. There are still many celestial treasures to find, but you just need to visually dig for them a little deeper. That actually can be a lot of fun, especially if you can stargaze in the darker countryside skies.

Last week, I featured the large but faint constellation Virgo the Virgin, now visible in the low southern evening sky.  This week, I want to take you to Coma Berenices, a small and faint spring constellation. Its name is Latin for “Berenice’s Lock”, representing the beautiful hair of Queen Berenice of Egypt. Coma Berenices has a distinction that no other constellation has. The best-known tale about how the hair wound up in the heavens comes from the Greeks and is based on a true story but still possesses quite a bit of malarkey. I’ll get to that in a bit.

The three brightest stars of Coma Berenices form a wide arrow pointing at the much brighter and bigger constellation Bootes the Herdsman. Coma Berenice’s hair, though, is made up of roughly a Y-shaped cluster of about a dozen stars just off the western side of the arrow.

(Mike Lynch)

I think the best way to find it is to face south as darkness sets in and look for the brightest and highest star you can see. That’s Arcturus, a star that has a definite orange-reddish glow to it. Just hold your fist at arm’s length, and about two and a half of your fist-widths to the right of Arcturus is where to start looking for the heavenly hair. You may need binoculars to help find it, especially if you have to put up with any light pollution. In dark rural skies it should be a piece of cake to spot. The star cluster that makes up Queen Berenice’s hair is made up of very young stars, about 500 million years old. The stars that make up the locks are about 250 light-years away, just down the celestial block from us. Oh, by the way, just one light-year equals nearly 6 trillion miles.

Now, back to the story concerning the heavenly hair. Berenice was the queen of Egypt around 200 B.C. and was madly in love with her husband, the famous Pharaoh Ptolemy III. Back in those days, there were many fierce battles but an upcoming battle against the Assyrians was expected to be especially bloody. Queen Berenice was scared to death that her king might meet his death.  So, she made a deal. She promised the gods that she’d cut off all of her beautiful golden hair and offer it as a sacrifice if Ptolemy returned safely.

Her prayers were answered when Ptolemy returned just a week after he left. It was a tremendous military victory! True to her word, Berenice sheared off all of her hair and dedicated it to the temple of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. However, within a week, the temple was broken into and thieves made off with the hair. The temple priests were in charge of security and in big, big trouble! They came up with a plan to save their necks.

The night after the robbery the temple priests requested that Berenice and Ptolemy join them outside to show them something amazing! They pointed high in the sky and showed the royal couple a small but faint cluster of stars and claimed that Aphrodite shot Berenice’s sacrificed hair high into the heavens for everyone worldwide to enjoy. Fortunately for the temple priests, Berenice and Ptolemy swallowed this bull hook, line and sinker. Every spring, we can also enjoy the heavenly hair in the constellation Coma Berenices, but we know the truth.

Mike Lynch is an amateur astronomer and retired broadcast meteorologist for WCCO Radio in Minneapolis/St. Paul. He is the author of “Stars: a Month by Month Tour of the Constellations,” published by Adventure Publications and available at bookstores and adventurepublications.net. Mike is available for private star parties. You can contact him at mikewlynch@comcast.net.

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If you have been to an ER lately — or if you’ve watched the disturbingly accurate TV show “The Pitt” — you’ve seen scenes that resemble field hospitals more than state-of-the-art medical centers. Waiting rooms have been turned into makeshift care zones. Chairs, cots and cubicles serve as gurneys. Providers eyeball the sick and injured and “shotgun” orders for patients. It feels chaotic and unwelcoming because it is.

This is the new normal for emergency departments in the United States, the result of a dramatic rise in the number of ER beds occupied by patients waiting for a space on a traditional hospital ward. We call them “boarders” and in many emergency departments, they routinely account for half or more of all available care space.

With a fraction of beds in play for new arrivals, waiting room patients — even some arriving by ambulance — are increasingly likely to be seen, examined and treated in the lobby. The consequences are as predictable as they are devastating: worse patient outcomes, fragmented care, longer hospital stays, ballooning costs and rising frustration and anger among staff and patients.

Less visible — but no less harmful — is the toll this takes on young doctors in training.

A recent study led by Dr. Katja Goldflam, a Yale professor, documents the scale of the problem. Nearly three-quarters of the emergency medicine residents she surveyed reported that boarding had highly negative effects on their training. They expressed anxiety and a mounting emotional toll over their diminishing ability to manage patients or handle department surges with confidence, and their growing sense that they could not provide the kind of care they’d expect for their own families.

As emergency medicine educators with a combined six decades of experience, this feels personal to us. We are failing our trainees. We are failing our patients. And we are compromising the future of doctors and patients alike.

The damage is not theoretical. One of us recently experienced it personally, when his father — during the final months of his life — visited two prestigious ERs. Both times, recently trained physicians missed straightforward but life-threatening problems after brief, stopgap-style encounters. Poor clinical judgment is more likely, and more consequential, in a hurried and overwhelmed care environment.

Today, medical education is no longer centered on memorizing facts. With smartphones, decision-support tools and now AI, information is everywhere. What sets a good doctor apart is judgment — the ability to navigate uncertainty, synthesize complex data and make decisive, accurate choices. Building this kind of judgment requires many patient encounters — “reps.”

No amount of classroom learning, reading or podcast listening can replace the formative experience of confronting a clinical puzzle in a patient who has entrusted you with their care. Yet in today’s crowded ERs, physicians in training are losing access to these crucial face-to-face encounters and the skills, competence and confidence they teach.

Shift change “rounds” — once a space for discussion and reflection — now operate more like inventory checks: Here’s a 78-year-old with heart failure, there’s a 35-year-old with appendicitis still awaiting an OR.

Meanwhile, as the waiting room overflows, doctors scatter into the lobby to see new arrivals, hoping to reduce the backlog. “Lobby medicine” — a sanitized term for care delivered in a setting stripped of privacy, dignity and safety — is more than a logistical nightmare. It sends a terrible message to young physicians: that cursory patient assessments, firing off broad-spectrum tests and “moving the meat” is acceptable. It is not.

Why is boarding getting worse?

COVID-19 was the inflection point. While volumes dipped early in the pandemic, they rebounded within a year — and in 2024, according to national hospital metrics, stood at 10% above 2021 levels. In 2023, research showed a 60% increase in boarding and fourfold increase in median boarding times compared with pre-pandemic ERs.

The reasons are complex and systemic: financial pressure to keep hospital beds full (every open space is lost revenue), an aging population with greater needs, dwindling access to primary care and a collapsing system of rehab, skilled nursing or home health options. Hospitals are boxed in, forced to provide basic care while waiting days, sometimes weeks, for aftercare services to become available. It is not uncommon for a third or more of the patients in a hospital to be on hold pending an appropriate discharge destination. The bottleneck trickles down: Wards become holding areas, the ER becomes a de facto ward and the lobby becomes the ER.

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So, what’s the fix?

The simple answer — just end boarding — has been the rallying cry of well-intentioned efforts for decades. Nearly all have failed. Why? Because emergency department crowding is not the root problem. It’s the canary in the coal mine of a dysfunctional health care delivery system riddled with misaligned incentives and priorities.

Real change will require collective outrage that spills beyond the ERs, into the inboxes and onto the agendas of hospital administrators, insurance executives and elected officials.

If we want better health care it means investing more — adding beds, staffing and aftercare capacity. It means creating primary care options other than a default trip to the ER. It means reclaiming the ER not just as a place for healing, but as a place for learning. A place where doctors are taught not in disaster zones, but in environments that allow for connection and understanding of our patients and their diseases. Finally, it means recognizing that designing and investing in better systems and in medical education is crucial to public safety.

Training a great doctor is like training a great athlete. You can’t learn to sink a three-pointer by watching YouTube. You have to step onto the court. In medicine, that means standing in front of a patient and deciding: What now?

That experience — raw, real and imperfect — is irreplaceable. And we’re losing it.

How we care for patients today will define how we all will be cared for tomorrow.

Eric Snoey is an attending emergency medicine physician in Oakland, Calif. Mark Morocco is a Los Angeles physician and professor of emergency medicine. They wrote this column for the Los Angeles Times.

Once upon a time, Republicans saw America as a “shining city upon a hill” with “free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity.” Now, based on some of their comments and policies, the party’s vision for the country is for less consumption, fewer choices, a bigger welfare state, a larger manufacturing sector and cheaper drugs. In general, today’s Republicans idealize the past and favor a slower-moving world.

In other words, what Republicans want is Europe.

At times President Donald Trump sounds less like a Republican businessman (much less Ronald Reagan) and more like a college student one month into his junior year abroad. Even if you dismiss his random musings, there is a budding intellectual movement among younger Republicans such as Vice President JD Vance and Sen. Josh Hawley, known as the New Right, that is gaining influence in the party and in the administration.

One of the characteristics of this new mindset is a disdain for the mass consumption of cheap goods. When asked about the costs to consumers of reducing the U.S. trade deficit, Trump said children should learn to live with fewer dolls and pencils. Vance has said that Americans need more expensive toasters.

How continental! What the New Right is describing are the consumption habits of Europeans, who buy fewer but often higher quality goods than Americans do. There’s not necessarily anything wrong with this consumption style — in fact, it has some merit — but it is distinctly un-American.

The New Right’s reason for wanting this economy is less about the need to save the environment or the pleasures of a bespoke toaster; its concern is a healthy manufacturing sector. New Right Republicans want all Americans to pay more to ensure the job security of the relatively small population of workers who represent the old way of doing things.

Which is, to repeat, very European. Unsurprisingly, the New Right also wants to restore unions.

The movement also wants a bigger safety net, not just for the poor but for the middle class. Vance wants a more expansive child tax credit that covers higher income families. Hawley and other Republicans want to maintain Medicaid as a program that covers not only the poor, as it was designed to do, but 20% of the U.S. population (that percentage grows if it includes those getting subsidies on the health care exchanges, which no one is talking about changing).

It is quite the change from the idea that the safety net is for the poor or the unlucky. The New Right is proposing benefits that cover most Americans for everyday life events.

The New Right also supports the new antitrust movement that aims to break up large companies even if they don’t harm consumers. It’s rooted in a deep distrust of corporate power, especially in the technology world. Does that sound familiar?

Is there anywhere else in the world where there is a crusade to break up and control U.S. tech firms? Why yes, there is. And Europe also has a less dynamic economy, with fewer self-made wealthy and where the biggest firms tend to be much older because there is less turnover and fewer new successful firms.

Trump’s proposal to rein in the prices for prescription drugs also has a distinctly European vibe. Under his plan, Americans would even pay what they do! Like the Europeans, Trump seems willing to take the tradeoff — less innovation and access to the latest drugs in exchange for lower prices.

The MAHA movement, with its hostility to artificial ingredients, feels a little European. Mark my words: It is only a matter of time before Trump issues an executive order requiring tethered bottle caps.

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Of course, a lot of Americans like Europe — myself included. The food and museums are great, and a government that pays for things and makes life more predictable sounds good. But it all comes at a cost. The American way has made us much wealthier, with even the poorest U.S. states having much higher living standards than most European nations. (Have you ever tried a European drying machine?)

In speeches and online, the American New Right likes to complain about Europeans, and occasionally bully them. But when it comes to policy, the consequences of their proposals are clear: They would make America more like Europe.

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The way it looks now, the Pohlad family will end up retaining ownership of the Minnesota Twins or selling at a price lower than initially anticipated.

It’s been nearly eight months since the Twins announced they would explore a sale of the club after 40 years of ownership. Some in the organization privately speculated a sale could bring at least $1.7 billion, the price for which the Baltimore Orioles sold last year.

The Twins figured then that a sale could be completed by March. At least one potential local buyer, after recently reviewing the club’s financial records, has lost interest based on the price, now believed to be $1.5 billion. The Twins reportedly are more than $400 million in debt, borrowing to pay bills.

Another potential local buyer has confided he’s not currently interested.

Still another, after reviewing the books, described prospects for a sale as “dismal.”

>> The major obstacle for a sale of the Twins is cash flow. A majority buyer would need myriad limited investors to cash-flow the operation, which could cost at least $25 million a year.

>> A major reason for the Twins’ recent financial losses is local TV deals. That eventually will improve, though. Meanwhile, other major league owners would frown on the Pohlads taking a lesser price because it could diminish the value of their franchises.

Also, after the 2026 season, complicated negotiations for a new labor agreement could lead to a work stoppage.

>> New York-based Allen & Company, hired by the Twins to explore a sale, also is exploring investment deals for the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers and the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun and New York Liberty.

>> Stationed just outside Target Field during Twins games are police armed with AR-15 rifles. Said one, “I hope I never have to use it.”

>> Lance Johnson coached Chet Holmgren, the 7-foot-1 Oklahoma City Thunder star, at Minnehaha Academy.

“What’s fun for me is that most everybody has seen him from his days at Gonzaga through now,” Johnson said Friday. “I’ve seen him from seventh grade through now, so it’s literally been the development from a boy to a man, and it’s made me very proud of him.”

Eight years ago, when Minnehaha Academy was partially destroyed due to a natural gas explosion, Holmgren had to re-route from home in Minneapolis and travel nearly an hour each day to get to another campus for classes.

“He had to take the city bus to a Burger King behind my house, and then from Burger King, I would drive him the rest of the way,” Johnson said. “The type of kid he was, he never once was late. He made friends with all the Burger King people. They loved him, gave him free food all the time. He was just a wonderful kid.”

>> After two years of litigation following dismissal for non-compliance over the NBA’s COVID-19 policy, St. Paul’s Ken Mauer, Jr., 70, who refereed nearly 20 NBA Finals, has won his pension appeal.

>> The Vikings will play the Steelers in Ireland on Sept. 28, but not because of deference to the Vikings. The game at Croke Park in Dublin is for the Rooney family, owners of the Steelers. Dan Rooney was U.S. ambassador to Ireland under President Obama.

It was the Steelers who sought a game in Ireland, and it just happened that the Vikings were chosen. Then the Vikings, who already have played four regular-season games in London, agreed to stay another week and play the Browns in London at Tottenham Stadium.

>> In 2019, Rocco Baldelli, at age 38, became the youngest winner of the American League Manager of the Year Award. The Twins — who won 101 games in 2019 — after a 13-20 start to this season, won 13 straight, and 15 of their next 17, to propel them to second in the AL Central.

Entering Saturday, only the Phillies (16-5) in Major League Baseball had more victories in May than the Twins (15-4).

As a player, Baldelli had three managers: Lou Piniella, Joe Maddon and Terry Francona.

“They brought very different things to the table. And man, I was lucky,” Baldelli said. “Lou was tough. Joe was incredibly creative and charismatic. And anyone who plays for Tito (Francona) finds a new appreciation for the game.

“All three of them might go to the Hall of Fame. Those are some good guys to learn from. And I got to work on Kevin Cash’s staff in Tampa when he took over and became a young major league manager.

“These were all essential for me, all in their own way mentors, and probably turned me into the baseball person that I am.”

>> The Lynx won’t host Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever until Aug. 24 at Target Center, but already the cheapest ticket is $167 via Ticketmaster.com. Most expensive: $3,176.

>> Former Gophers and Cretin-Derham Hall football player Casey O’Brien, 26, who has undergone more than 40 cancer surgeries, received a standing ovation after his emotional induction speech into the Mancini’s St. Paul Sports Hall of Fame the other day.

>> Former USA Olympic hockey gold medal star Jenny Potter’s son Cullen, 18, an Arizona State center from Minneapolis, is projected as a late first-round pick in next month’s NHL draft.

>> Minnesota Twins starter Pablo Lopez’s first full healthy season in the major leagues was 2022 with the Miami Marlins. He was pitching well and working hard in weight and training rooms. He finished the season 10-10.

But, he figured, “there must be something else I can do. Lo and behold, the season’s over and I’m weighting 242 pounds! The heaviest I’ve ever been,” he said.

Lopez, 29, is 6-foot-4.

“It wasn’t a huge 242 pounds. But I was a little fluffy here and there,” he said.

Then he began chatting with the Marlins’ team dietitian.

“I’m like, this is one gap I can shrink to elevate my game to get better. I started diving into diet and nutrition and made a lot of changes that offseason going into 2023,” he said.

He showed up to his first spring training with the Twins at 215 pounds.

“Down 27 pounds,” he said.

Lopez (4-2, 2.31 ERA) is in terrific physical condition. He used to enjoy cheeseburgers.

“Oh, yeah — just give me two cheeseburgers — I could eat so many,” he said. “Have you ever been to Shake Shack? Oh my God, I could eat six of them.

“I don’t, but I could.”

Now he’s learned the value of nutrition. “And what it brings to my life and career,” he said.

It’s brought him a $73.5 million, four-year contract. He’s gone from a size 38 waist to size 32.

Ever eat a doughnut, a candy bar?

“No doughnuts, no candy bars,” he said.

>> Twins reliever Louie Varland’s wife Maddie, an Irondale High School grad, is a dentist practicing in Brainerd. “She comes down (Twin Cities) here on weekends and on off-days I go up there — we make it work,” said Varland, playing for $768,150 this season.

>> Miles Bollinger, who was captain of his football, basketball and golf teams at Cretin-Derham Hall, is headed to Indian Hills (Iowa) Community College to play golf. Miles, son of ex-Vikings QB Brooks Bollinger, never received an academic grade other than A during his prep career.

>> Star quarterback for the Centennial girls flag football team is senior Allenah Loots, daughter of former record-setting Southwest State QB Jeff Loots.

>> Iconic local sports vendor Wally “The Beer Man” McNeil has turned 90 and plans to work the Vikings’ summer golf tournament next month at the Meadows at Mystic Lake.

>> As he recently announced, Warren Buffett, considered by many the greatest U.S financial investor in history, with an estimated net worth of $160 billion, is retiring this year at age 94. St. Paul Johnson grad/former Gophers hockey captain Ron Peltier worked for Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway company, having founded mortgage affiliate HomeServices of America, a national real estate firm.

Peltier, 76, worked for Buffett for more than 20 years.

“Absolutely great guy,” he said. “The things he expected were total honestly and integrity. He’s famous for saying, ‘Lose money for the enterprise and I’ll understand. Lose an ounce of reputation and I’ll be ruthless.’ And that’s still how he thinks. You can’t tarnish reputation, which is probably good advice for all us.”

What’s made Buffett an investment genius?

“First of all, he uses common sense,” Peltier said. “You want to surround yourself with the best people. But no compromising on honesty and integrity.”

Peltier retired two years ago and resides in Dellwood, Minn., where he owns 7 Vines Vineyard.

>> Eight players on Cretin-Derham Hall’s baseball team are committed to college programs next year, including infielder-pitcher Davis Fleming to the Gophers.

>> Among Twins starter Chris Paddack’s array of body tattoos is “236” inscribed on his ribs.

“The (overall) number I was drafted — round eight,” said Paddack, who starts Monday in Tampa Bay. “Just a reminder that I’m living out my dreams.”

Paddack, 29, was drafted in 2015 by the Miami Marlins. Other tattoos include roses as a reminder of his grandmother, who died of breast cancer last February; a lion with blue eyes, which he calls his animal of choice because he’s a proud Texan, and Joshua 1:19, his favorite bible verse.

“They’re all meaningful to me,” he said. “I want to finish (tattoo) out my left arm, but I haven’t rushed it because I want it to be something that means something to me or my family. So that way, whenever your kids ask, you have a reasoning behind it, and it’s not just a couple butterflies.”

Paddack, pitching for $7.5 million this season, is 2-4 with a 3.98 ERA after 10 starts. He can become a free agent after the season.

>> Gophers junior golfer Isabella McCauley has been named a member of the U.S. Palmer Cup team featuring men’s and women’s college golfers who will compete internationally June 5-7 at the Congaree club in Ridgeland, S.C.

>> Unless he gets another pay raise, the Gophers’ P.J. Fleck, at $6.8 million, this year will be the ninth-highest paid football coach in the 18-team Big Ten, per on3.com.

>> Former Gophers head football coach John Gutekunst, 81, is retired in Myrtle Beach, S.C. With the Gophers, he was paid $100,000.

>> Jose Valdivielso, a Cuban infielder for the original Twins in 1961, died recently at age 90. Al Worthington, a reliever, is the oldest living former Twin at age 96.

>> The Saint Paul Saints lead all of Minor League Baseball in rainouts this season with 13.

>> Former Richfield basketball star Jessica January is taking an assistant coaching job at alma mater DePaul University.

>> Monroe High Hall of Fame electees for June 22 induction at DeGidio’s: John Moravec, Dick Rudolph, Joe Corbo, Gordy Morrison, Paul and Jim Fearing.

Don’t print that

>> The Vikings so far this year are No. 1 in the NFL in cash spent on players, $362.3 million, per spotrac.com. The Packers at $259.5 million, are No. 27 in the 32-team league. Last season, the Vikings ranked 18th at $228.4 million, the Packers 19th at $234 million.

>> The 2025 NFL draft and free agency have been completed and Vikings GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, who has one season left on his initial four-year contract, remains without an extension even though Vikings ownership has said it will get done.

>> TV viewership of the Timberwolves-Oklahoma City Game 1 of the Western Conference finals last week was down 24% from the Wolves-Mavericks Game 1 playoff a year ago, per sportsmediawatch.com

>> So much of the coming Vikings season will depend on how rookie QB J.J. McCarthy plays. At this juncture, a 10-7 regular season record isn’t unreasonable.

>> The NBA is expected to wait until soon after the NBA Finals to announce that Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore are officially new owners of the Timberwolves and Lynx. Meanwhile, a second source has confirmed that Rodriguez and Lore did not have the $1.5 billion purchase price and needed mega-billionaires Michael Bloomberg and Eric Schmidt to step in to fortify.

>> A little birdie says a Gophers men’s sophomore basketball starting guard will play this year with a $700,000 name, image and likeness (NIL) deal.

>> If Gophers football sophomore defensive back Koi Perich, paid $250,000 via NIL last season, makes less than $1 million, he’s being underpaid.

>> Sophomore offensive line starter Phillip Daniels, who is 6-foot-5 and 315-pounds, has left the Gophers and is joining a reigning national championship Ohio State team that had a NIL player payroll of $20 million last season. Minnesota plays in Columbus on Oct. 4.

>> Don’t think there won’t be major competition among Minnesota casino tribes for more sports gambling rights when it’s officially announced that Grand Casino in Mille Lacs will succeed Xcel Energy Center as corporate naming sponsor for the Wild’s St. Paul arena.

>> A sports memorabilia collector the other day was able to get new Pope Leo XIV, an American baseball fan from Chicago, to sign a baseball.

Leo XIV is expected to be asked a lot to autograph baseballs. In 1987, former Gophers catcher Mike Sadek from Richfield, while working for the Giants, was able to get a baseball signed by Pope John Paul II during a papal appearance at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. The Pope signed it “JPII.” It brought $34,000 in an auction.

>> Now word is it’ll take $17 million a season if Kirill Kaprizov’s representation squeezes the Wild to re-sign its star in July.

>> Wild first-round draft pick forward Danila Yurov from Russia will play for the entry-level $950,000 when he gets to the NHL.

>> Plans are underway for a huge retirement party in Montreal in August for Marc-Andre Fleury and teammates from his 21-year career, which ended with the Wild this season.

Overheard

> The Twins’ Rocco Baldelli, the 2019 AL Manager of the Year: “I could be wrong about this, but over seven years there’s only one guy in this clubhouse who was here in 2019, Byron (Buxton). It’s basically Byron and a different group. When it gets down to it, you’re going to have to win in a completely different manner.”

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