“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” — John F. Kennedy Right now, the Ukrainian people are paying the high price for their freedom. Fathers and husbands are ...

A good sign THUMBS UP: This week the New Ulm Medical Center had some good news to report. For the first time in a long time, there were no COVID patients hospitalized at NUMC. This is a welcome development for the hardworking, overstressed staff at NUMC. COVID patients can put a severe ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has invaded Ukraine, taking his country back toward the halcyon days of the old Soviet Union when Moscow controlled wide swaths of territory, from the Baltic Sea to the Chinese border, and countries like Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and East Germany looked to ...

The Journal is publishing its Progress Edition in today’s paper. It is a mammoth undertaking for a small staff to try to chronicle some of the advances and changes that have been taking place in New Ulm in the past year. For those who think that nothing much happens around here, we are ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops on Monday into sections of Ukraine held by Russian-backed separtists. Putin had earlier recognized the validity of the separtists’ claims of independence, and said the Russian troops were entering the regions as “peacekeepers.” Peacekeepers? ...

The three white men convicted in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, last fall were all sentenced to life in prison. Two of them, Travis and his father Gregory McMichael, got life without parole. William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., who just chased Arbery through his Georgia neighborhood and ...