Perseverance THUMBS UP: You have to hand it to the State Street Theater Company. They are persistent. They are finally presenting their production of “Charlotte’s Web,” a play that was supposed to be presented last fall, but which was closed before it opened because of the state’s ...

The COVID-19 vaccine produced by Johnson & Johnson is being held back this week while government health experts look into the possibility that six cases of rare blood clotting was caused by the vaccine. While the six cases of blood clotting came after nearly 7 million vaccinations means ...

President Joe Biden signed an executive order last week setting up a commission to study changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, specifically to study expanding the court or creating limited terms for Supreme Court justices. We think the administrative and legislative branches should keep their ...

On Tuesday, in a swift aftermath to the shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center on Sunday, the officer involved in the shooting resigned, as did the police chief, who had termed the shooting a day earlier as an “accidental discharge.” Chances are likely that criminal charges may be ...

As Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said at a press conference, the shooting on Sunday of Daunte Wright, a Black man, by one of his police officers could not have come at a worse time. With the Derek Chauvin trial in full swing, tension between the police and the black community is ...

(Editor’s Note: We turn Our View column today over to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who writes on an issue vital to newspapers and their readers.) By Senator Amy Klobuchar On May 7th of last year, the Hastings Star Gazette printed its last issue. The paper’s first issue as The Hastings Independent ...