Minneapolis Star Tribune - Jim Klobuchar, longtime Star Tribune columnist and adventurer, dies at 93
Condolences to Senator Amy Klobuchar
Jim Klobuchar, an intrepid son of the Iron Range who with grace and puckish wit chronicled the lives of ordinary and fabled Minnesotans in a journalism career spanning more than four decades, most of it as a columnist for the Star Tribune, died Wednesday after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease at the Emerald Crest care facility in Burnsville. He was 93.
From 1961, when he left the Associated Press to work for the Minneapolis Tribune, until his retirement in 1995, Klobuchar trained an amused and perceptive eye every week on the state's culture, sports and politics. His energetic exploits both in and out of the newsroom made his name a household word in Minnesota long before he became known as the father of the state's senior U.S. senator.
Washington Post - Amy Klobuchar’s complicated political inheritance
It’s been something of a theme over the course of Amy’s life; both an evolving kinship with her father and being mortified by things he put in the paper. For decades, Jim Klobuchar was a daily columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune; part sportswriter, raconteur-adventurer, voice for the voiceless, and needler of the ruling class. Little in his life, or Amy’s, was off limits.