As Minnesota families celebrate the new year, I want to reflect on everything we achieved together in 2023 and look forward to the year ahead. Despite a divided Congress, we worked across the aisle and made progress on a range of issues impacting our state. Through my visits to all of ...
Dear Heloise: I’m known as a young professional, and I use my cellphone several times a day. A few days ago, a co-worker asked me why I hadn’t updated my phone to a newer model -- something “more hip” to impress the clients, he told me. Honestly, I’m not interested in impressing ...
Dear Annie: This letter is a message to “Fed Up,” the reader whose husband dotes on their daughters. She needs to know that her husband, as well-meaning as he is, is NOT doing your daughters any favors. I know this all too well by example. My mother never learned to be independent. From her ...
Dear Heloise: I just finished reading the Sound Off from the 94-year-old gentleman in Ohio, and it hit a nerve. He noted the lack of gratitude of modern-day Americans for what we have. We do a lot of whining for what we don’t have, yet very few of us have ever known what real hardship ...
Dear Annie: I recently had to go to a big-box store to purchase something that I couldn’t get online. The checkout lines on the grocery side of the store were six people deep, but if you looked beyond, to the other side of the store, there were no lines. I’ve been trying to teach family and ...
Dear Annie: My boyfriend and I have been together for five years. This last year, there has been no physical intimacy between us at all. We vibe very well in our relationship being partners in a small business. He says he is still attracted to me and keeps on blaming our busy work lives for ...