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Opinion

SMSU adding 4-year nursing program would be a big deal for region

Editorials

As baby boomers age, the need for registered nurses will continue to intensify, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The AACN projects 193,111 openings nationwide for RNs each year through 2023. On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., highlighted the need to fill ...

A number of administrative priorities in 2026

Community Voices

While there are many capital park, street and wastewater projects happening in the city this year that were highlighted in my monthly column a couple of months ago, there are also a number of administrative priorities and work that also will make up a big part of city’s year ahead. While ...

Why turn away fully funded opportunity for students?

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: We are writing to express our deep disappointment in the district’s recent decision to refuse reinstating the gymnastics program, even after the gymnastics program offered to cover the full cost of the program. When a program steps forward with a solution that removes the ...

A tale of two school boards

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: In the March 31 edition of the Minnesota Star Tribune, there was an article that the Bemidji school board voted to keep an elementary school open for at least another year despite facing a deficit of $3.5 million. What I found interesting is that hundreds of parents and ...

‘No Kings Rallies’ hard to ignore

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: The past weekend was an opportunity to pause and take stock of our current administration’s complete lack of understanding of how things work. Even after repeated lessons from the not so recent past, and the evidence placed squarely in front of them. The third “No Kings ...

Stocking up on fun


Local Columns

For those of us on the prairie, stocked trout provide perhaps the best introduction to fishing for the species. Once my brother and I, along with a select number of friends, had learned of a population of the salmonids that had flown under the radar stocked in a lake near my hometown, I was ...