See the Times' Ernest Hooper's grandmother featured on CNN
Columnist Ernest Hooper wrote a poignant column this morning in the St. Petersburg Times about seeing his 106-year-old grandmother highlighted during President-elect Barack Obama's acceptance speech on Tuesday.
And it all kicked off with a profile that CNN put together on this amazing woman, who is friends with Atlanta's mayor and still finds a way to stay active enough that she wasn't home when Obama first called her after seeing the CNN story.
Here's the piece that got Obama involved:
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