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Opinion

Not fit to lead most powerful country

Letters

To the editor: Last week four American soldiers died in a training exercise in Lithuania. When their bodies were recovered, Lithuania paused to honor their sacrifice. A crowd gathered as men carried the four coffins from the hearses to the U.S. transport jet. Many Lithuanians wept. When a ...

National shame in White House

Letters

To the editor: I would like to put aside the horrific economic policies and fractured international relations of this administration for a moment and concentrate on the current resident of the White House. It seems that many Americans no longer value common human decency so I would like to ...

Sharing Easter memories through greeting cards

Columns

Easter is a strange holiday in that it’s constantly moving around on the calendar like a hyperactive mouse who has just consumed its body weight in caffeine. If you were born on the Fourth of July, you would know that your birthday always falls on the fourth. Its day of the week varies from ...

Protests for the people

Letters

To the editor: For those who are still curious about Saturday’s demonstration on Broadway — the gathering of over 250 area people was a non-partisan protest of many actions taken by the current administration that will hurt us folks in southern Minnesota. Among these issues are broad, ...

Look at the numbers

Letters

To the editor: In a country of just over 340 million people, we live as the wealthiest nation in the world. And from our affluent society — yes, affluent, and not the hellscape or third-world country that 45/47 proclaims to agitate his base — we generate an enormous amount of tax revenue, ...

The Real Hands Off movement

Letters

To the editor: The ‘Hands Off’ demonstration on Saturday in New Ulm was not the grassroots organization that they try to portray. Indivisible has been funded by George Soros’s Open Society Foundation to the tune of $7.6 million. I would suggest that the real ‘Hands Off’ movement ...