Woohoo New Ulm! The monkey is off your back. You’re no longer the “least diverse” city in America. I remember hearing that New Ulm was the most “ethnically homogenous community of over ten thousand in America.” It was fun to share that with friends through the years, even though ...

My first movie theater experience happened when my three older sisters let me tag along to see the flick Yours, Mine and Ours. Not the 2005 version starring Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo. I may have been a late bloomer, but I wasn’t that late. I mean the movie that featured silver screen ...

Much of our rising energy costs comes from a decades-long campaign of progressive environmentalists and Democrat backed regulators to tear down coal-fired power plants, block nuclear and natural gas expansion and make America reliant on wind and solar — the two power sources most popular ...

When you look at the calendar, it seems like time is flying — not only in weeks and months, but definitely in years. This September will mark twenty-five years since the terrorist attacks on 9/11, a day that reshaped our nation and the lives of countless service members and families. In ...

There is probably an unlimited number and combinations of things that people worry about. Problems are just a fact of life that have to be faced and dealt with. Have you ever met anyone who has no problems? Is it possible to be problem free? Rather than trying to avoid problems, it ...

You might think that a town with a name like Orange City would have vast orchards of citrus trees, but you would be mistaken. So much for truth in advertising. This isn’t terribly surprising given that Orange City is in northwestern Iowa, far from the citrus-growing region. But Orange City ...