Businesses of the Year THUMBS UP: Congratulations to the two honorees selected for the New Ulm Businesses of the Year award at the New Ulm Chamber of Commerce annual meeting Thursday. Christensen Farms was selected as the large business honoree, and New Ulm Real Estate was the small business ...

Ideas that start on the progressive fringes have a way of becoming government policy these days, as President Biden’s $400 billion student loan cancellation shows. Lo, Democrats in Congress are now pressing the President to impose rent control nationwide. The White House is considering a ...

Gun violence is so regular an occurrence in the United States that no incident, however tragic, comes as a surprise. But events in recent days deserve special attention all the same, as they underscore a core truth about responding to gun violence: changing just one or two rules would not be ...

Illinois is among states with the highest percentage of gas stoves, which do pose health risks. But carrots rather than sticks would do more to encourage people to switch. America needs a well-constructed public education campaign on how to mitigate the health risks of gas stoves. It also ...

Thumbs up to the Minnesota Legislature’s swift passage this week of a tax conformity bill. Gov. Tim Walz signed the bill into law, and the changes will be effective for the filing season that starts later this month; the state department of revenue had said it needed the bill to pass by ...

Who could have predicted that kitchen stoves would become the latest tinderbox in the nation’s culture wars? But that’s what happened in recent days as Republicans flew off the handle over comments by Richard Trumka Jr., a member of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, who said ...