NEW ULM – The New Ulm Film Society’s next screening will take the audience back to a time when America was more divided than ever and how the right man at the right time reunited it. The film is 2012’s “Lincoln” and is the fifth movie in the film society’s Steven Spielberg director ...

Affordability is not an abstract policy debate in Minnesota; it is a daily reality. Consumer prices have risen nearly 2 percent over the past year, and while inflation has cooled from its peak, that offers little comfort to families still paying far more for groceries, utilities, insurance, and ...

Thumbs down Daylight Savings springs forward again At 1 a.m. Sunday, March 8 clocks are set to spring forward an hour to 2 a.m. as part of Daylight Savings. We effectively lose an hour that we won’t get back until fall. Studies confirmed that taking away this hour has a negative impact on ...

I recently got to watch something up close that is remarkable. Healing. If you saw me a few weeks ago and noticed my heavily bandaged left thumb, I joked, “Oh that? I was trying cut my thumb off.” It wasn’t intentional, but I did slice it pretty good. It occurred while I was performing ...

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, the time of year when you’ll see lots of reminders about colon health and the importance of getting screened for this type of cancer – screenings that can prevent the second leading cause of cancer deaths. In fact, new data now reveals ...

Dear Annie: My children are trying to move me into assisted living, and I feel like I’m being slowly erased. I am in my early 80s, and I still live in the home where I raised my kids. It is not fancy, but it is mine. I know every creaky stair. I know which window sticks in the winter. I ...