Letter

Will the public meeting this Tuesday evening prove to be a new turning point or a road map for continuing the current practice of neglect, mismanagement, abuse and deterioration for Becker County forest lands?

This is a Tale of Two Choices -- which scenario will you choose? A "yes" vote on the Lake Park-Audubon building bond referendum will allow us to: 10.5 -- Accept a one time offer of $10.5 million in stimulus money. 10. -- Welcome families and businesses that are waiting to...

It is appalling that a letter like the one written by Ray Bellcourt in the May 8 Becker County Record was printed for your readers. There is enough negative news about the White Earth Indian Reservation (crime reports, drug busts, and assaults) in this newspaper without printing...

The time has come for all of us to face the facts that we (and that means all of us) have allowed our government, our elected officials, to spend us into this fiscal mess we are in. We all say we cherish freedom, but at the same time we allow government to give us a little tax money...

State government can't do much to revive the flagging economy -- or can it? The constitutional requirement that the state budget be balanced every two years gets in the way of the kind of countercyclical spending that the federal government is contemplating. When revenues fall during...

Having been in attendance at the Jan. 8, 2009 LP-A re-organizational meeting, I could not understand the absence of the oath of office and swearing in of the newly elected candidates to the board. In the past this was always a part of the election process at LP-A so the public and...

As DirectTV subscribers, we feel that contracts and agreements with us, the consumer, have been broken. In the past year, channel 4 (CBS, KSJB) and channel 11 (NBC, KVLY) have been merged into one corporation that owns both, domiciled in Texas. At that time, we figured it was only...

Congress is in the process of crafting an economic recovery package to be delivered to the President in mid-February. Rural Minnesota has been struggling under a weak economy for some time and this package is an opportunity to invest in ways that will stimulate real, homegrown economic...

An elderly friend of mine calls me on the average of once a week. She is haunted by a choice she made about 40 years ago. She is finding it hard to forgive herself for eliminating what she now knows was her developing child, through the choice of abortion. Though she has repented...

January comes again and another anniversary for Roe v. Wade. The power elite of our secular culture continue to proudly declare a celebration of a culture of death in our land. Our recent election has raised up a seeming mandate for a high celebration of legalized abortion on demand....

The Damien Society Mitten wishes to thank the entire community for a successful "Mitten Tree Project" again this year.

United Blood Services would like to thank everyone who came out to donate during the blood drive on Sat., Dec. 20, 2008. Although the snow was blowing and temperatures were dropping below zero, the commitment of the Detroit Lakes community members was inspiring. United Blood Services...

It was encouraging to read the editorial in last week's Detroit Lakes Tribune that indicated agreement by the two governmental agencies responsible for the Willow Street-Highway 59 intersection. The highly respected mayor of Detroit Lakes and two professional engineers at MnDOT...

I am responding to a letter to the editor that appeared in the Detroit Lakes Tribune at the end of November. It was written by former resident Dick Flomquist, who was critical of the newspaper for running an unflattering editorial page cartoon of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. He...