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Editorials

Keep Sirhan Sirhan in prison for good

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a tough choice. But then again, it shouldn’t be a tough choice to decide whether to parole Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin who killed Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in June of 1968. The killing of Robert Kennedy, just 5 years after the assassination of his ...

COVID seeped into everything in 2021

As the end of the year approaches, news articles have been taking stock of what happened in the past year. Unfortunately, permeating through most of the major events of 2021 is one common theme — COVID-19. In the economic news, COVID has impacted workplaces, employees and business ...

An example of love and acceptance on a global scale

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died Sunday at the age of 90, was a remarkable man who lived in remarkable times. The first Black Bishop of Johannesburg and later Anglican Archbishop of Capetown, he used his influence to rally public opinion — in South Africa and around the ...

Thumbs Up/Down

Justice is done THUMBS UP: Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer who shot Daunte Wright with her 9mm Glock instead of her Taser, was found guilty on Friday of two counts of manslaughter. It is not wrong to feel sorry for Potter. Evidence and body camera video show she did ...

Be ready for carbon monoxide dangers

Last week seven members of a family in the Moorhead area were found dead in their home. While police wouldn’t immediately say what had killed the Hernandez family, they did say there was no sign of obvious trauma. Wednesday, with blood toxicity results in, the authorities announced the ...

COVID’s rebound

A year ago COVID-19 was hammering health care workers, closing schools, stopping sporting events and other large group gatherings. Six months ago, thanks largely to the vaccines that were becoming increasingly available, COVID numbers were dropping and people were looking at leaving masks at ...