Yesterday morning, Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) released its new budget forecast, showing a $7.746 billion projected surplus. This is…
Our American style of constitutional democracy isn’t for everyone. We saw that this was true for Iraq and Afghanistan, Russia, Belarus, Turkey…
Millions of prayers are lifted up to God every day seeking Divine help to save this wandering, strife-ridden and crippled world, but have we e…
As a Reading Corps tutor at Princeton Primary, I’ve been amazed by the significant strides many students are making in reading. I’ve seen chil…
It’s been 14 years since I looked across the aisle of a Sun Country airplane and stared at a sleeping old man. He looked like a child lulled t…
In my travels across our state I often hear from people about the need to improve our infrastructure in rural areas. Minnesotans see problems …
It’s almost impossible to complete a holiday shopping list without a visit or two to a big box store.
It’s almost impossible to complete a holiday shopping list without a visit or two to a big box store.
Stability is often an elusive puzzle piece in our world.
If you or your family are going to see one movie this year, I urge you to see the beautiful, hopeful, uplifting “Te Ata.” It’s based on the tr…
We didn’t see it coming.
Twenty years ago, the United States was intently focused on terrorism. The 9/11 attacks had killed 3,000 Americans and profoundly shaken our n…
(Note: Each year as Veterans Day rolls around I want to shout to the world, especially to those who consider it a "nothing" day, that it's a g…
All children need safe, loving, permanent families. But right now, too many Minnesota children aren’t getting the basic building blocks of sup…
As I consider this school year, I like to think of it as a progression of milestones that we are striving to reach throughout the year. Last w…
In the October 20, 2021, edition, a letter writer states that when he drives 60 miles an hour on Highway 169, he feels like a traffic hazard. …
As Americans, we tend — understandably — to focus on the Constitution as the source for our representative democracy. It is, after all, our ba…
The year was 1955 and I was in the seventh grade at a one-room schoolhouse about 11 miles west of Princeton.
What do a dentist, an elevator boring contractor, a law enforcement officer and a farmer living in Minnesota have in common?
I have never been on a movie set. And it's likely I never will be.
A week off
Whenever you hear about America’s electricity system these days, it’s usually some big problem that has captured the public’s attention.
It may be a touchy subject for some but it was disappointing a few days ago to find out that our country's middle class now has a smaller shar…
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…
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 …
There was a column in the Minneapolis paper last Sunday that was a prime example of how far off the track we've gotten when it comes to politi…
The school year is well underway in Princeton Public Schools and I think I can speak for all staff, all parents, and (almost) all of the stude…
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