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List shaping up in First District

There is a week left in the filing period for candidates to run in the special election to replace the Rep. Jim Hagedorn. So far, the list of candidates is leaning far to the right. Four Republicans have filed to run to fill out the rest of Hagedorn’s term. The one DFLer is Richard W. Painter, a University of Minnesota law professor who converted to the Democratic Party a few years ago after serving as the chief White House ethics lawyer in the Bush Administration from 2005 to 2007. He unsuccessfully challenged Sen. Tina Smith in the 2018 DFL U.S. Senate primary. We suppose it is ...

Putin blames the wrong people

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 accept their presence by defending their country. Putin has been spreading lies and manufacturing offenses to give him an excuse to invade Ukraine. Now that the Ukrainian resisstance is slowing him down while the world unites against him, Putin continues his lies by blaming his ...

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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 residence into a home. This week Heart to Home partnered with the Sertoma Club of New Ulm and Gag Sheet Metal to send a truck full of furniture and toys to Kentucky, which had been hammered by deadly tornadoes in December. Hundreds of homes were destroyed, and hundreds of families lost all their ...

Baseball strikes out

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 lockout in time to start the season on time. Commissioner Rob Manfred announced the opening day and the first two series for each team were cancelled. It’s all about the money. The owners, who have it, want to keep as much as they can. The players, who get paid plenty, want to get paid more. They ...

Highway 14 is really going to happen

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 will happen until it happens. Now, however, things are starting to happen. The Minnesota Department of Transportation announced Wednesday that preliminary work is scheduled to begin this coming Monday. MnDOT crews will begin cutting down trees and clearing away vegetation in the work area. The ...

Putin’s plans for Ukraine are failing

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 military opposition. So far, that’s not happening. Perhaps he expected the separatist attitudes in eastern Ukraine were widespread throughout the country, and the Ukrainian people would welcome, or at least accept the Russian occupation. But the Ukrainian people are united in opposition, and ...