I would like to respond to last week’s letter from a writer who doubts the safety and effectiveness of the COVID vaccine. Yes, there is a smal…
As a senior citizen and a taxpayer, I still see it as my responsibility to care about the public schools. I am troubled by the attempts of som…
There was a column in the Minneapolis paper recently that was a prime example of how far off the track we’ve gotten when it comes to political…
It has been an interesting summer as a parent in district 728. Large numbers of parents started to get involved and attend school board meetin…
There’s nothing like a hotly contested presidential election to energize voters. It’s the same with a spirited race for a United States Senate…
Multiple-award-winning Minnesota author and parent Kao Kalia Yang remembers the day, more than 35 years ago, when her father climbed with her …
Sherburne parents and guardians,
No doubt, our state has had great success over the years.
I don’t like mice. I don’t like seeing them in a cage, running crazily on a treadmill wheel. I don’t like seeing them skitter about in the woo…
The Active Elk River project is moving right along. The Furniture and Things Community Event Center has been open for over a year, work is fin…
Many of Minnesota’s drought-ridden wetlands are not currently wet, but this doesn’t mean they are unprotected.
We judge elected officials based on their position on the issues we care about. We may cast our ballot for candidates that most represent the …
Letting Oct. 15 deadline slide past while food is being provided will hurt schools and families down the road
The Elk River Rotary is thrilled to announce that we raised more than $47,000 from the 2021 Taste of Elk River on Aug. 5.
Six Minnesota public schools and, actually, the whole state received terrific news on Sept. 21, when the U.S. Department of Education named th…
This month, the Metropolitan Council took an important step that builds on the community engagement around transit safety we’ve been doing in …
The U.S. Congress has constitutional authority to enact laws to enforce the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 23th, 24th and 26th amendments in the US C…
Minnesotans are notoriously bad practitioners of the zipper merge. Rather than using two full lanes until it is finally time to merge, somethi…
National Voter Registration Day is Sept. 28, and now is the time to get vote-ready.
As a parent of three and grandparent of five granddaughters, ages 8-12, all of whom live within 10 minutes of my wife and me, I’m cautious and…
Have you ever tried to feel emotion for an event you can’t remember? It is a difficult place to be in. Around you, there might be people wipin…
Tragedy has a way of unifying or dividing. Twenty years ago, it unified.
As you all know, our frontline essential workers have faced immense challenges over the past year and a half during the COVID pandemic. These …
Most of us were raised with the mantra, “don’t spend more than you have.”
On behalf of our state’s police officers, corrections officers, and dispatchers, we’re writing to publicly say “thank you” to Sen. Mary Kiffme…
This is the first time I have written anything in direct reference to a deceased peace officer, and I do so with great respect to his memory. …
Tim, Meg, Ross, Jillian, David and J.J. found – years ago – what many parents say they want now for their children: more personalized, hands-o…
When the U.S. Senate passed a once-in-a-generation bill to make historic and long-overdue investments in our nation’s crumbling infrastructure…
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