Letter

To all the snowplow drivers clearing our roads, you people deserve a big thank you for the tireless job of keeping our roads in good driving condition. With people trying to pass you and driving without their lights on, it can be dangerous. So if you meet someone with their arm out...

The late Lakota scholar, Vine Deloria Jr., often made the point of what had unbalanced our society. He said that we are focused upon our rights—the Second Amendment right to bear arms; the right to pursue life, liberty and happiness; property rights; privacy rights, etc. Nothing...

I wish to be recorded as opposed to the proposal for the removal of the American Legion Campground in Detroit Lakes and replacement with housing and/or commercial space. I am not certain if the planner has thought about the effect on the economy of Detroit Lakes from the seasonal...

When a company can't meet its customers' expectations, it's always seems to be a budget issue. Unfortunately, under budget constraints, the US Postal Service (at least in Detroit Lakes) seems more than willing to kill off its own business. According to official signs posted in the...

Recently, The Tribune shared the editorial from the Park Rapids Enterprise about the violence in Charlottesville and the wisdom and power in nonviolent protest. In that editorial it was stated, "Here in Hubbard County, we're isolated from the kind of hate filled groups that gathered...

Last Saturday, I was outside enjoying the beautiful day when it was interrupted by the all too familiar sound of a helicopter spraying the nearby potato fields with chemicals that drift on to people and property. At this point I, like others, had to make the decision to breath shallow...

Thanks to the City of Detroit Lakes for replacing our mailbox struck by a city snowplow last winter. It's a great example of our "civilized" Minnesota community.—Karen Hustad, Detroit Lakes

Let’s see. Things not going well for The Donald. No Muslim ban, no Obamacare repeal, no movement on infrastructure, jobs … approval ratings dropping to historic lows, Russian hacking/interfering with the election heating up, getting too close. Gotta do something to get people...

To our new U.S. education secretary, Betsy DeVos: We, out here in the West, are overjoyed about your appointment as education secretary! When you testified to the Senate committee which examined your credentials that "guns were needed in schools to protect students from grizzly bears,"...

I have worked with individuals with developmental disabilities and adults and children with severe and persistent mental illnesses for over 30 years. I have provided services as a job trainer in our community for 17 of those years. Things have come a long way for this population since...

This Is How It Begins: Quoting American Sociologist C. Wright Mills (1916 — 1962), "People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to...

I am sure you realize that your recent "article" about the unfortunate legal challenges to the Osage Sportsman's Club should have been published as an editorial-opinion piece and is not news. In additional to publishing numerous inaccuracies (which I've attempted to correct in this...

One thing is certain following this election cycle. Conventional strategies and candidates need get in tune with this rapidly changing world. Trump on the Republican side and Sanders on the Democrat side created excitement that brought millions of people to the polls with a simple...

If one was to look at the headlines on this paper you probably wouldn't have even realized that there had been a presidential election the day before.

On Wednesday, we had 1,200-plus students at the Historic Holmes Theatre for a show called "Rock the Presidents." The premise of the show is to share the history of our nation and tell both serious and unique stories about the various presidents—from which president shaped the...