If I were president, as soon as I had been inaugurated, I would have gone to Congress with the following plan. The program would have been created because I may have been so bold as to promise that the U.S. would build a wall to deter illegal immigration — and that the Mexicans would pay for it.

We asked the cracked crystal ball, full of glue and covered with duct tape though it is, to come up with 20 predictions for 2019. The ball responded, “In my condition, how to you expect me to have 2020 vision in 2019?”

Out of the murk come former Trump advisers George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, holding something. Coming closer, it appears to be 2018 propped up by its suspenders. The poor fellow may yet make it to the finish line.

For Minnesotans, Christmas comes when the days are among the darkest and coldest of the year. If we take the time to step back from the modern-day holiday’s commercialism, from the rush to buy gifts to the office parties to the extra baking, card writing, children’s pageants, etc., we may fi…

How would you like one of your county commissioners to be ultimately responsible for the quality, access and cost of your health care? It may not be the commissioner in your district, but it will be one from your county.