Cold weather has arrived in our neck of the woods, the intense type of chill that hurts your face when you step outside. The mere act of going outdoors feels like being slapped. I grew up in the shadow of the Cold War wherein we worried about being turned into human French fries by Russian ...
We all feel it at some point and to some degree. As we anticipate the holiday season and see the extra waste that we all have during the holidays, please rest assured that there are a few easy things to do that we can embrace easily that will help us reduce waste in our homes during the holiday ...
(Columnist’s note: I am a big fan of the cartoon strip “Peanuts.” My Christmas column always involves Charlie Brown and his friends, and how they can tell us an important story.) Charlie Brown was perplexed and anxious. He wondered why people always seemed so happy during the holiday ...
The recent news coming out of St. Paul is troubling. Last week a non-partisan audit revealed “serious mismanagement and lost taxpayer revenue” in Minnesota. The audit claims that the Department of Human Services has not attempted to recover more than $40 million in outstanding ...
We have been learning about Sharon McCully, who grew up in rural southwest Minnesota, graduated from Russell High School in 1957, trained as a registered nurse in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, graduating in 1962, and practiced nursing for six years before volunteering to be commissioned in the Air ...
In “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” the best TV show of all time, Charlie is frustrated in his effort to find the true meaning of Christmas. Spoiler alert. In the end he does. But before then, Lucy tells him, “Look Charlie, let’s face it. We all know that Christmas is a big commercial ...