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Opinion

Second Amendment, upon further review

Letters

To the editor: Whenever another mass shooting occurs, the sensible left renews its call for legislation to protect our citizens from gun violence by lunatics wielding weapons of mass destruction in pursuit of slaughtering innocent, unarmed, law-abiding people. Now I’m thinking that I need ...

Good turnout for town hall meetings

Letters

To the Editor: I’d like to thank the residents of Brown and Redwood counties for attending the recent town meetings Senator Dahms and I held recently. We saw good turnout at all our stops, and it was clear the Number 1 topic on people’s mind was fraud in the State of Minnesota. I share ...

Passing on chance of glory

Columns

I recently stopped at the post office to mail a few packets. This is something that would normally take only a few minutes, but it consumed nearly half an hour and caused my wife to suffer some undue alarm. It wasn’t the post office’s fault. As I approached its exit, a vaguely familiar ...

Thumbs up/down

Editorials

THUMBS DOWN Good shot to death by ICE agent The death of Renee Good is a tragedy. By now the video of  ICE shooting Good in her car has been seen by millions world wide and for many this incident feels all too familiar to the 2020 death of George Floyd. The outrage and seeming lack of ...

The guns have come out

Letters

To the editor: When Kristy Noem stepped off the airplane and gave her speech at the Minneapolis airport yesterday, she did not offer condolences or comfort regarding the fact that a person had just died. Instead, she initiated a scathing attack on the victim, portraying her as some kind of ...