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We’ve learned many lessons in the many months since COVID-19 dominated every aspect of our being.
Tears have been flowing steadily in Brooklyn Center this past week. Every resident — and former resident, like me — has been struck with angui…
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.
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…
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 …
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.
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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?…
Latest COVID-19 News in Region
- Santa is coming to town Dec. 5-8
- AHSD finalizes boundary changes
- Report: Carver County remains among nation’s healthiest
- ISD 110 test scores fall during pandemic
- Carver County COVID-19 Positive Case and Vaccine Tracker
- Morrison County COVID-19 Positive Case Tracker
- Carver County gets high marks for health, pandemic challenges linger
- Morrison County averaging 54 new COVID cases per week
