opinion

The only day of the week designated with a special name is the seventh day of the week, which is called the Sabbath (day of rest). It has been assumed...

I’m a fiscal conservative, a co-owner of several, not-so-small, businesses in northern Minnesota. My family’s been in business for over two generations and most vote Republican. Now, business is not...

Becker County is fortunate to be served by the West Central Initiative. The WCI’s Focus on the Region tells the story: A little more than a year ago, the City...

I stopped to take a good look at a picture that’s been hanging on the wall a long time, but in an area around the corner where we seldom pause...

The calendar says Spring — ya, right! Outside tells a different tale. Snow drifts, minus temps belie that announcement. Last year we were raking lawns by now. But hope “springs...

It’s significant that a bipartisan task force on Local Government Aid system came to this conclusion: “LGA remains an important program in terms of state-local fiscal relations and should not...

For all the congestion in its populated areas, the bulk of California’s land area is wilderness, some of the most spectacular wilderness in the lower forty-eight states. Those who announce...

It’s time for plain talk. In the past several months it has become quite apparent to some of us that our President plays fast and loose with the truth, but...

Once again with President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Speech we got another politician hypocritically talking about, “Jobs, jobs, jobs.” If just one job was created every time some...

by Nick Thomas I never gave much thought to Congressional names until Anthony Weiner hit the headlines in 2011, as a disgraced member of the 112th Congress. Now we have...

If you’re thinking about giving to the Becker County Food Pantry, now is the time. You have until the end of the month to donate and still have it count...

There have been a lot of broken hearts in our family. The formula is simple: one of your kids has a romance with a guy or gal that the family...

Cigarettes almost certainly will be more expensive in Minnesota following this year’s legislative session, and it’ll be thanks to a tax increase worth cheering. Gov. Mark Dayton, in both his...

The white flakes blowing across the freeway in California’s Central Valley looked like snow, but the temperatures were in the 80s. The flakes were petals blowing from thousands of almond...

With a revised budget proposal, Gov. Mark Dayton threw in the towel for this year on tax reform. The DFL governor is nearly back where he started when he was...