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Thumbs Up Dancing like the Stars inspiring Last weekend 2B Continued hosted its sixth annual Dancing Like the Stars event in Glencoe and it was another rousing success. The dancing competition netted $560,000 to support suicide prevention, mental health, wellness education and outreach across rural Minnesota. This annual fundraiser is a big deal. The actual competition in Glencoe consistently sells out of tickets to the point where surrounding committees are able to host screening parties. It is amazing to see multiple communities across multiple counties come together for any ...

Voting machines testing and post election reviews

Columns

State and local election officials ensure that every vote is properly cast, counted and reported through rigorous review and oversight. Voting machines are tested and receive state certification by the Office of Secretary of State. Preliminary testing of all devices used at an election is required, and errorless tests must be performed before equipment can be used. In addition, a Public Accuracy Test is also conducted before every statewide election, wherein a certain number of ballots are prepared and run through the machine to be certain it is counting correctly. This is open to the ...

Just another 'left-wing farmer' with Trump derangement

Columns

Last October, we were into soybean harvest, when I got a call from Fritz Busch. Fritz is a friend and a reporter for The Journal. Every so often he calls to see what’s going on with farmers. Right then, the destruction of our soybean market by the Trump administration was newsy. Fritz came out, we talked, and he took picture of me unloading beans. Next day that was on the front page under a headline, “Farmers fear they have soybeans nobody wants.” I thought I looked rather jaunty in the picture leaning against a tire. Fritz talked to a few other farmers for the article who had ...

Play highlights discrimination, hurtful words

Letters

In January, The New York Times published an article titled, “The R-word returns, dismaying those who fought to oust it.” The R-word, for those unfamiliar, is the word retard or retarded. Minnesota agencies and federal policy stopped using mental retardation in 2005 and 2010. According to the New York Times article, the R-word is now being used more often. We are People First of New Ulm, a group of self-advocates with disabilities and allies, and United We Stand Players of New Ulm, an inclusive theater group producing original works focused on community, discrimination, and what ...

How do you feel about your better half?

Columns

When we meet, date, fall in love, and finally marry the person of our dreams, the relationship evolves over time. Feelings ebb and flow, and are modified over time by experience. Feelings are very personal emotional states that vary in intensity and have been known to overwhelm thinking, reality, and even common sense. The feelings that other people trigger in you have a lot to do with the way the relationship goes. If somebody makes you feel good, you feel good about that person. If somebody makes you feel bad, you feel bad about him or her. It is not that complicated. It is hoped ...

Moonshot memories

Columns

The success of the recent Artemis moon mission has caused many Americans to feel uplifted and inspired. Uplifted because we could all imagine leaving Earth and its countless botherations — especially the Kardashians — behind. Inspired that four brave souls managed to accrue nearly 700,000 frequent flyer miles despite the TSA situation. For us Boomers, the name Artemis evokes memories of the 1960s TV program “The Wild Wild West.” Artemus Gordon was Secret Service agent James West’s sidekick. But Artemus was more than just an ordinary aide-de-camp. He was also a gadgetry ...