Russia’s invasion of Ukraine did not catch the West’s intelligence agencies unaware. But no one in Washington or Europe anticipated the scale at which they would need to provide Kyiv with arms and munitions. ... The most pressing need in Ukraine is the supply of 155mm howitzer shells, which ...

Bus trip tripped up THUMBS DOWN: A special bus trip to the Minnesota State Capitol to lobby legislators on the crisis in nursing homes had to be canceled for Monday. It is Sovreignty Day at the Capitol, and all legislators will be in a mandatory joint session of the House and Senate so ...

He seems to have abandoned “Jim Crow 2.0,” but that was the extent of the nuance in President Biden’s political remarks Sunday in Selma, Ala. He was there to commemorate the anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the 1965 brutality against a civil-rights march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. ...

For decades the main approaches to reducing nitrates that have increasingly endangered Minnesota’s drinking water have been to do testing, strictly regulate municipal wastewater systems and ask farmers to do voluntary best practices. It hasn’t worked and there’s little reason to believe ...

Sloppy clerical errors by the state bar shouldn’t have sunk the case. A local Republican judge’s decision to throw out the State Bar of Texas’ disciplinary case against former Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell on flimsy technical grounds was a disservice to the public the judge ...

Robert Beussman wore many hats during the years he lived in New Ulm, and most of them were excellent preparation for the final one he donned — mayor of New Ulm. Beussman, who died Monday at the age of 77, was born in Springfield, but adapted so thoroughly to New Ulm that it is hard to think ...