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Opinion

Winter Olympics reflect the best in sports and a hope for peace

Columns

Nothing compares to the Olympics when it comes to promoting the best in sports competition and peaceful international relations. The Winter Olympics kicked off this week in the mountains of northern Italy. We’ll have two weeks of televised skiing, ice skating, sledding, hockey, curling and ...

Minnesota in center of the news universe

Columns

We spent time in southern California. I could write about walking along beaches, warm sunsets, and missing bitter cold back here. Perhaps I will. But today, I must join my voice to the resistance. What is happening to fellow human beings, sometimes for no offense other than having dark skin ...

Trump’s behavior is depressing

Letters

To the editor: Is this who we want as the leader of our country? Based on newspaper reports and national television news reports: • Instigates an insurrection of the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, because he didn’t like the election results. • Without evidence or facts, gutted numerous ...

Trump’s paramilitary force imposing state terror

Letters

To the editor: M. Gessen had an interesting article on the New York Times web page on Sunday, 1/25/26 in which the argument was presented that the Trump Administration has now arrived at state terror. The use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Control agents as a paramilitary ...

Keep our neighborhoods safe

Letters

To the editor:  “Who is my neighbor?” This is a poignant question of faith. Jesus beckons us with his answer. A very dear Hispanic woman is suffering the following trauma. Please hear her within your heart through Jesus’ eyes of compassion: “Although I am a citizen (for decades), ...

Keep heart health as top of mind this February

Columns

February is American Heart Month, a time for everyone to think about their own heart health and prevention. Heart disease is the number 1 killer in America, and has been for a century. Almost 50% of Americans have at least one of three key risk factors for heart disease: high blood pressure, ...