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Why Americans soured on higher education

Even colleges can’t fool all of the people all of the time.  Just 38% of Americans have high confidence in higher education, according to a new Gallup poll. That’s down from 57% in 2015. Gallup found the three main reasons for this lack of confidence are political agenda, cost and not ...

An airborne joyride

The exotic-looking gizmo sat on the tarmac, its bone-white paint gleaming in the summer sun. It’s a peculiar gadget, with two wings that are roughly the same length. Oddly, its elevator is located at the front of the fuselage instead of on the tail. It seemed out of place sitting on the ...

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THUMBS UP NU plays in 3rd consecutive Jr. Legion State Baseball tournament The New Ulm Junior Legion Gold defeated Marshall Thursday to win the Division 1 Junior Legion Sub-State G Baseball Tournament. The win moves Junior Gold to next week’s state tournament, in Alexandria. The win over Marshall was impressive in itself, but it also meant that New Ulm will be playing in its third consecutive Junior Legion State Baseball Tournament. Also for New Ulm, the New Ulm Legion Gold baseball team already has a state berth in the D1 Senior Legion State Baseball Tournament since New Ulm hosts ...

Recalling the day my dad lost his right arm

Writing a column isn’t usually physically challenging. Unless you count wracking my brain. Sometimes I pull a muscle in my cerebellum. Today I’m having to work at this. Wednesday morning, I had carpal tunnel surgery on my right wrist. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to type after that. But here I am, plunking away with a giant, clompy wrap around my right hand. Credit to Tylenol. My post-op instructions mention no strenuous activity for that hand. I’m not sure writing counts as strenuous. Finding the right words and pounding them together to build a sentence are heavy ...

Right the ship in Minnesota

To the Editor: So the legislative session has ended in Minnesota. It’s not surprising no one was held to account for the $9 billion (and counting) in fraudulent activities while Democrats were in control. Yes, some of the little people got their fingers slapped. The bigger fish have yet to be fried. Walz, Ellison, Frey, Klobuchar, Omar, Craig, (and countless others), all knew and were involved to some extent. The fraud no doubt continues in ways we have yet to discover. With Democrats controlling the governor, Senate, and a tie in the House, no meaningful pain was, or will be felt ...

Celebrating 145 years of farming

Gilbert Nelson left Norway in 1864 and settled in Ettrick, Wisconsin. He then joined the Wisconsin Regulars and served in the Civil War. By 1881, Gilbert and his wife, Anna, had five sons and a daughter. Hoping to carve out a new life in Dakota Territory, the Nelsons loaded everything they ...