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Opinion

Ending the era of unchecked fraud in Minnesota

Community Voices

Minnesotans have always taken pride in our work ethic and our commitment to looking out for our neighbors. We pay our taxes with the understanding that those hard-earned dollars will be used to build our roads, defend our borders, and provide a hand up for the most vulnerable among us. But ...

The time is now to address forever chemicals in our environment

Editorials

Municipalities across the nation and Minnesota are dealing with the PFAS dilemma. PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a group of long-lasting chemicals that are found in our clothes and kitchenware among other things, according to the National Library of Medicine. The substances ...

20 mph plenty on city streets

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: It is pathetic that our community has had another car-hitting-student-pedestrian-accident. Marshall needs to focus on creating safer ways for non-vehicled citizens to get around. Twenty (mph) is plenty and it’s long overdue for the city of Marshall to enact and enforce a 20 ...

Solve our problems by following the Constitution

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: It’s truly sad to see how far from our Constitutional principles we have fallen as the self proclaimed “progressives” continue with their chants of this is what democracy looks like. Our Founders wrote a Constitution creating a republican form of government giving the ...

They are calling to you

Local Columns

Have you noticed them calling to you? It is such an enriching time of the year. There's new growth all around us. In the last week, plants are finding the courage to pop above ground. Soon the fields around us will be planted and we'll be surrounded by growing greenness. The trees are ...

Go lightly

Local Columns

The wonderful thing about the outdoors — and one that it took me a couple decades to learn — is that it can be taken as seriously or as light-heartedly as one wants to. You can spend 60 days in a treestand, watching the deer, checking trail camera photos, and tracking the movement of that ...