Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Saturday that the Ukrainian state was in jeopardy, and he knew just who to blame — the Ukrainians themselves, or at least the democratically elected Ukrainian leaders who have pushed poor Vlad into sending his troops into their country, and refuse to ...

Heart to Home THUMBS UP: Heart to Home Furnishing has been doing a lot of good for people in the past several years. The volunteer organization takes donations of good quality used furniture and distributes it to families in need, families that need beds, tables and chairs to make their ...

If anyone thought baseball owners and playes would gain some wisdom this week and come to an agreement that would allow the season to start on time, they don’t understand the history of sports labor negotiations. Talks broke off on Tuesday, the owners’ deadline for ending their player ...

We who live at the far end of the Highway 14 expansion project have lived for a long time with the doubt that this worthy project will ever reach New Ulm. Even when the funding was announced last year and assurances were given, there were some lingering feelings that we shouldn’t believe it ...

We’re not sure how Vladimir Putin intended his invasion of Ukraine to go, or what plans he had for the country are, if the invasion is successful. But we doubt the current situation is what he had in mind. Putin no doubt expected the Russian military might would steamroll over the Ukrainian ...

Minnesota’s latest state economic forecast shows the state’s whopper of a surplus is getting even more whopping — instead of $7.7 billion, it could be as much as $9.25 billion. But at this point the state budget forecast is, as the old saying goes, counting chickens before the eggs ...