opinion

The year of 2012 was a record breaker. President Obama was re-elected with a five million vote advantage over Romney. A clear 50 percent plus majority. President Obama also ended...

When NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre stated, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," I absolutely agree with...

Don't be too quick to write off newspapers, even as the industry struggles to adapt to the financial struggles of the digital age. Here are a few reasons from the...

Remember when the Tereyton cigarette people ran those ads (not allowed anymore) with the slogan "Us Tereyton smokers would rather fight than switch." Along with the slogan was a photo...

Just about everyone you talk to nowadays, knows that when it comes to business, both good leaders and good employees are getting harder and harder to come by. Many reasons...

True, expecting a full "Team of Rivals" never was realistic. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has to govern, and doing so in the modern media spotlight would be impossible if members...

As he approached his seventieth year, the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright endured a bout of pneumonia during a Wisconsin winter. "You could add twenty years to his life," his...

In response to the grievous journey of Eric Bergeson (Country Scribe) as reported in the Record of Jan. 13, 2013: Dear Lost and Confused in Austin, Texas, May I point...

With the expectation of additional snowfall before spring arrives, snowmobilers are already in snow heaven.

Last week's brutally cold weather followed by black ice conditions this past Sunday should serve as a reminder that driving -- and surviving -- through a Minnesota winter is not...

While our snowbird brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandmas and grandpas are playing shuffleboard and lining up for early buffets in the warm climes of California, Arizona, Texas and...

These days our country is "up-in-arms" over the shootings that have recently occurred in Connecticut and elsewhere in too many places. We are panicked and rightly so. Where are we...

I was certainly not surprised to see Mr. Tobkin's letter on Jan. 20, regarding abortion and Roe v. Wade. He has been writing his tirades for years. What does surprise...

If persons do not learn from history, history is bound to repeat itself. This is a part of history. "This year will go down in history. For the first time,...

Cheers to the Becker County Board for acting quickly on an emergency request for an additional social worker to keep up with rising child placement cases. Human Services Director Nancy...