The troubled ERP rollout at Tennant echoes a familiar story in corporate America: ambitious digital transformation colliding with operational complexity. For Minnesotans, it inevitably invites comparison with 3M’s well-publicized ERP difficulties years ago. While the scale and stakes differ, both cases illustrate how even sophisticated companies can stumble when modernizing core systems.

In the world of ice hockey — where speed, grit, and passion define the game — few families have left as deep and joyful a mark as the Hughes family. From the stadiums of the NHL to the global stage of the Olympic Winter Games, this family’s journey is one of tradition, devotion, and excellence. In the winter of 2026, as the U.S. hockey teams warmed the hearts of fans worldwide with breathtaking performances, the Hughes name became synonymous with American hockey itself. At the center of that story are Quinn and Jack Hughes — two brothers wearing the red, white, and blue for Team USA — alongside their younger brother Luke, a top NHL player whose own ascent reinforces just how special this family truly is. Yet their legacy stretches beyond the current generation. It begins, in many ways, with their mother, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes — a trailblazing figure in women’s hockey long before her sons laced up their first pairs of skates.

There are trips you plan, and there are trips that shape you. The summer of 2006 was our maiden voyage into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness—the BWCA as it’s affectionately known. Six of us piled into a van in Minneapolis and headed north toward Ely, equal parts excitement and inexperience. It was the first Boundary Waters trip for every one of us: me, my son Jake, my brothers Dave and Chuck, and Chuck’s two boys, Dan and Alex. Dave’s Pekinese, Mugsy, also made the trek. We were rookies. Enthusiastic rookies—but rookies nonetheless. Chuck had poured over BWCA maps for months prior and had done his best to bring all of us up to his level of excitement for the trip before us.