As I begin my term representing Ward 2 on the Waconia City Council I would like to take this opportunity to share the philosophy I intend to i…
Almost all of us have suffered a broken heart at some time in our lives. It might have been the end of a teenage crush or the betrayal by a cl…
Behind every start-up is a story with entrepreneurs following their passion, taking a risk, and/or are creating something innovative in the ma…
Many years ago, I used my first-ever paid week of vacation to travel west to visit best friends who’d settled in the Bay Area of California.
Some say health care workers are on the “front lines” fighting COVID-19. Our physicians, nurses, caregivers, and those supporting clinical ope…
I would like to start by thanking our parents, students and staff for getting the 2020-2021 school year off to such a great start. A school ye…
I would like to start by thanking our parents, students and staff for getting the 2020-2021 school year off to such a great start. A school ye…
Oh, I how long for a new box of crayons. It’s something I feel every year as summer winds down.
When it comes to Christopher Columbus, he indeed landed in the Bahamas on Oct. 12, 1492, in the first documented arrival of Europeans to North…
I’d like to thank the community for the outpouring of support you have shown toward all my colleagues and teams here across the Ridgeview syst…
Behind every start-up is a story with entrepreneurs following their passion, taking a risk, and/or are creating something innovative in the ma…
Many years ago, I used my first-ever paid week of vacation to travel west to visit best friends who’d settled in the Bay Area of California.
Some say health care workers are on the “front lines” fighting COVID-19. Our physicians, nurses, caregivers, and those supporting clinical ope…
I would like to start by thanking our parents, students and staff for getting the 2020-2021 school year off to such a great start. A school ye…
I would like to start by thanking our parents, students and staff for getting the 2020-2021 school year off to such a great start. A school ye…
Oh, I how long for a new box of crayons. It’s something I feel every year as summer winds down.
When it comes to Christopher Columbus, he indeed landed in the Bahamas on Oct. 12, 1492, in the first documented arrival of Europeans to North…
I’d like to thank the community for the outpouring of support you have shown toward all my colleagues and teams here across the Ridgeview syst…
During troubling times ISD 110 is committed to cultural competence
George Floyd made three mistakes in the last minutes of his life.
Coming of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s was fraught with challenges. Protests raged across the nation because of the unpopular war. Ri…
Born in the shadow of 9/11, you began your school-aged years as the Great Recession loomed, and now have had your senior spring experience can…
I am writing today to provide some regional context to messaging you may be hearing and reading about hospitals’ and health systems’ preparedn…
These are crazy times. Some of you are juggling your jobs as well as helping children through their virtual school day.
In these challenging days, it is reassuring to see the many ways people are reaching out to others - doing grocery runs for the elderly, makin…
In recent days, our school district has been called upon to serve our community in ways we’ve never before imagined. In responding to this cal…
It’s difficult to know where to start when asked to put my thoughts on paper. My work at the Chamber has been establishing relationships with …
The first strands of sunlight stretched across the Friday morning horizon like a detached bystander, unaware of the anxious uncertainty that h…
COVID-19, or coronavirus, impacts us all—it doesn’t discriminate. While 80% of patients experience relatively mild symptoms and can recover at…
For the third year now, my husband and I have embarked on a three-week road trip across the South, searching for sunshine and warmth, and spen…
For the third year now, my husband and I have embarked on a three-week road trip across the South, searching for sunshine and warmth, and spen…
These are unusual times politically in America, what with the rise of populism and socialism as cures for all that ail U.S. society.
Editor’s note: This commentary has the full support and backing of the Adams Publishing/ECM Editorial Board.
One of the most common questions I have been asked over the past year is, “why doesn’t [insert city name here] have its own police department?…
Let it never be said that one bad idea doesn’t deserve another.
How are you doing on your New Year’s resolutions for 2020? I bet some of you have made and already abandoned well-intentioned pledges.
Minnesota has a love affair with debt. According to Gobankingrates.com, Minnesotans carry the seventh highest debt per capita of any state’s r…
For at least the last quarter century, the inequality of educational outcomes in Minnesota has been a concern. The state has one of the larges…
I went to my optometrist last week, Dr. A. Styg Matism, for my annual checkup. Styg put some drops in my eye. I assumed he was checking for gl…
We’ve come to the end of not only the year, but the decade. Before we review the predictions of my cracked, duct-taped crystal ball at the beg…
I gave birth for the first time in my 55 years of life and I have to say, it didn’t feel so good.
What do you think was the biggest national news story of 2019?
One thing that has come out of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings is that Democrats and liberals remain befuddled as to w…
The darkness arrives late afternoon. The temperature is below freezing. The sun is setting by 4:30 p.m. or so. It’s that time of year, we are …
Did you know that our state has something called the “Minnesota Homeless Veterans Registry?”
Next March 13-14, every household in the nation is supposed to receive either a postcard or a paper form from the U.S. Census Bureau. About a …
Between the leaves falling, colder temps, and the large numbers of pumpkins on display all around the area, one is reminded Halloween is quick…
What is your most lasting memory of childhood? Going to the park to conquer that giant slide? Maybe biking to a nearby lake or swimming pool s…
Imagine this scenario: You are in a crowded place, somewhere you’ve never been before. You walk up to a total stranger and hand him or her a v…
In July, I wrote about the numerous issues going on at the Department of Human Services, the state’s largest agency that over a million Minnes…
If you’ve ever watched the movie “Hoosiers,” starring Gene Hackman as an Indiana high school basketball coach in the 1950s, you may recall tha…
Last week, the national news media made a big deal about it being the 400th anniversary of the introduction of slavery to North America. The p…
The sudden, unexplained departures of the top four officials at the Department of Human Services (DHS) in the past week— and then two of them …
On June 22, 1944, the “GI Bill of Rights” was created. While its upcoming 75th birthday may not sound like a significant achievement in our na…
If there were a way to measure deflation in the human body, the best place to witness it might well be the license center. Doesn’t matter whic…
Recently, Carver County was in the news once again for one of its many positive features. We were ranked by the health-based Robert Wood Johns…
Last month, the Association of Minnesota Counties created a transportation funding resolution for all counties to consider. To date, nearly 60…
We celebrate 25 years of keeping our children safe from communicable diseases with National Infant Immunization Week April 27-May 4. Carver Co…
When a child has an explosion in a diaper, few of us feel compelled to study that landmine. It’s a deposit that is best cleaned, wrapped into …
We are finding salt everywhere. Studies are finding it in our lakes and rivers, in our stormwater ponds, and in groundwater aquifers. Fifty la…
Oh, I how long for a new box of crayons. It’s something I feel every year as summer winds down.
When it comes to Christopher Columbus, he indeed landed in the Bahamas on Oct. 12, 1492, in the first documented arrival of Europeans to North…
I’d like to thank the community for the outpouring of support you have shown toward all my colleagues and teams here across the Ridgeview syst…
During troubling times ISD 110 is committed to cultural competence
George Floyd made three mistakes in the last minutes of his life.
Coming of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s was fraught with challenges. Protests raged across the nation because of the unpopular war. Ri…
Born in the shadow of 9/11, you began your school-aged years as the Great Recession loomed, and now have had your senior spring experience can…
I am writing today to provide some regional context to messaging you may be hearing and reading about hospitals’ and health systems’ preparedn…
These are crazy times. Some of you are juggling your jobs as well as helping children through their virtual school day.
In these challenging days, it is reassuring to see the many ways people are reaching out to others - doing grocery runs for the elderly, makin…
In recent days, our school district has been called upon to serve our community in ways we’ve never before imagined. In responding to this cal…
It’s difficult to know where to start when asked to put my thoughts on paper. My work at the Chamber has been establishing relationships with …
The first strands of sunlight stretched across the Friday morning horizon like a detached bystander, unaware of the anxious uncertainty that h…
COVID-19, or coronavirus, impacts us all—it doesn’t discriminate. While 80% of patients experience relatively mild symptoms and can recover at…
For the third year now, my husband and I have embarked on a three-week road trip across the South, searching for sunshine and warmth, and spen…
For the third year now, my husband and I have embarked on a three-week road trip across the South, searching for sunshine and warmth, and spen…
These are unusual times politically in America, what with the rise of populism and socialism as cures for all that ail U.S. society.
Editor’s note: This commentary has the full support and backing of the Adams Publishing/ECM Editorial Board.
One of the most common questions I have been asked over the past year is, “why doesn’t [insert city name here] have its own police department?…
Let it never be said that one bad idea doesn’t deserve another.
How are you doing on your New Year’s resolutions for 2020? I bet some of you have made and already abandoned well-intentioned pledges.
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