We attend many events at the New Ulm High School as senior citizens and grandparents. We want to thank students and others for the respect they give us. Not once — but always someone waits and opens the door for us. God Bless you! Ivan and Judy Friese New Ulm
To the editor: The price of greatness is responsibility, according to Winston Churchill. Career politicians on every level of government need to take a long hike into retirement for “new, ethical, responsible blood” to hold office, doing their jobs to serve the citizens, not hold office ...
Dear Heloise: I’m responding to Katharine B.’s letter about nail-biting that ran in a recent column. I used to bite my nails, too, so what I did was get “acrylic nails.” You can’t bite through those things! Then I tried “gel” nails, and you can’t really bite though them ...
Dear Annie: I want everyone to keep their germs to themselves. I am carefully training my children to avoid any contact with dirty hands or saliva when handling communal food. Unfortunately, few people in my world share my view. My mother and mother-in-law routinely share their germs while ...
To the editor: Dec. 2, 1954 The US Senate passed, 67-22, a resolution condemning Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, stating he had “Acted contrary to Senatorial ethics and tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.” If Senator McCarthy did not like someone he would ...
President Biden offered a deal on the border to congressional Republicans that they could refuse. To their credit, they did. The president, speaking from South Carolina, said he would shut down the border “right now,” if Congress passed the proposed bipartisan deal now in front of ...