THUMBS DOWN Heavy June rains leads loss of home The high volume of rain and debris on the Minnesota River combined to create a dangerous situation at Rapidan Dam. Dead trees in the water effectively clogged the flow of water through the dam, forcing it to erode through the western bank. ...
It’s been four years since the height of the pandemic, but COVID is a sickness that still affects many lives. My own life has been impacted in the past week. That’s because of the COVID cases at a Marshall assisted living, facility, the home of my 86-year-old mother. I’ve been ...
Columnists rummage around in the closets of our lives looking for things we share. Those become leaping off points to write about. I didn’t have to look hard this time: water. If you’re reading this, you’ve had too much rain. For a few weeks, friends from further away asked if we had ...
The Supreme Court on Friday issued the kind of ruling that would once have been viewed as so obvious as to be unnecessary: Yes, the court said, judges have the constitutional authority to deny firearms to defendants who are under domestic-violence restraining orders. The court was only able to ...
Things aren’t going well at all for the global warming crusaders. Despite hundreds of billions of tax dollars spent on green energy over the past decade, the world and America used more fossil fuels than ever before in history last year. The electric vehicle movement is stalled out, solar ...
Chief Justice John Roberts, meet Roger Taney, your history big brother. Abraham Lincoln despised Taney as the legal upholder of white supremacy but had to suffer being sworn in by the old Maryland scarecrow in 1861. In that fraught March moment, the dark past and bright future of America came ...