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NU Junior Baseball appreciates $15,000 grant

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To the editor: The New Ulm Junior Baseball Association would like to extend their thanks to the Minnesota Twins Community Fund and the City of New Ulm for the funding of the new dugouts at the North Park baseball fields. These new dugouts are a great addition to the baseball amenities at North Park that will be enjoyed by youth baseball players for many seasons to come.  The New Ulm Junior Baseball Association is proud to have the support of the City of New Ulm and the Minnesota Twins Community Fund for our t-ball and youth baseball programming. The New Ulm Junior Baseball ...

Trump’s waste, fraud, and abuse

Letters

To the editor: Elon Musk, (Remember him?) was notoriously charged with ferreting out the waste, fraud, and abuse in our federal government. Along the way Elon and his DOGE team with the blessings from the Oval Office threw out the baby with the bath water, and our country is only beginning to feel the ill effects of the willy-nilly, chainsawed, deep cuts into our democracy. (Guess whose favorite absentee, “Where’s Waldo” District 1, U.S. rep joined the DOGE caucus in 2024...) In considering the waste in Republican’s repetitious mantra, I’m reminded of the saying ...

Trump’s waste, fraud, and abuse

Letters

To the editor: Elon Musk, (Remember him?) was notoriously charged with ferreting out the waste, fraud, and abuse in our federal government. Along the way Elon and his DOGE team with the blessings from the Oval Office threw out the baby with the bath water, and our country is only beginning to feel the ill effects of the willy-nilly, chainsawed, deep cuts into our democracy. (Guess whose favorite absentee, “Where’s Waldo” District 1, U.S. rep joined the DOGE caucus in 2024...) In considering the waste in Republican’s repetitious mantra, I’m reminded of the saying ...

Ending the era of unchecked fraud in Minnesota

Columns

Minnesotans have always taken pride in our work ethic and our commitment to looking out for our neighbors. We pay our taxes with the understanding that those hard-earned dollars will be used to build our roads, defend our borders, and provide a hand up for the most vulnerable among us. But lately, Minnesotans have watched in disbelief as hard-earned tax dollars have been treated like a playground for fraudulent activity. The scale of corruption is groundbreaking. At least $9 billion in taxpayer money has been stolen from Minnesota’s social service programs under the watch of Gov. Tim ...

Alcohol and the teen brain

Columns

The importance of the brain cannot be overstated. Without it, we would just be lumps of flesh. Damage it, and we malfunction. It determines everything we do, keeps us alive by monitoring and running our body, stores our memories, triggers our emotions, allows us to speak, determines how smart we are, and so much more. This critical organ needs to be protected and never abused in any way. A common way that our brains get abused is through the use of alcohol and street drugs. The focus here is on alcohol and the developing teenage brain. The fragile developing brain goes through ...

Working on the waterworks

Columns

The word “plumbing” comes from “plumbum,” the Latin word for lead. That’s a load of hooey. “Plumbum” clearly denotes someone who has a bum crack that is precisely vertical. If you’re the type of person who enjoys perpetual torment, then repairing the plumbing in an old farmhouse is a gift that keeps on giving. After my brother Les and his son Dustin installed new sewer lines in our family’s ancestral farmhouse, I thought that everything was both hunky and dory. Wrong-o, moose face! The house’s plumbing seemed to work as intended. Nothing leaked, including ...