Springfield Pageant THUMBS UP: The Springfield Nativity Pageant is being presented this weekend, a Christmastime tradition that has been carried on for 37 years. It is Springfield’s Christmas gift to people throughout the county and beyond, presented free of charge. The outdoor pageant is ...

It is said that a fool and his money are soon parted. Well, Elon Musk didn’t get where he is today by being a fool, but he parted with $44 billion of his money to buy Twitter, and now he seems to be running it into the ground. Musk said he purchased Twitter over concerns that the massive ...

When President Biden visits a microchip factory under construction in Arizona, it might look like a political victory lap: The factory will bring $12 billion and thousands of jobs to an important swing state that just elected a Democratic governor and senator. But the chips the factory will ...

Of all the stresses schoolchildren endure, lunch shaming should never have been on the list. A recent Minnesota attorney general’s opinion stating that all students are entitled to the same full school meal is a welcome move to protect against future lunch shaming in all our ...

The tiny western Minnesota city of Prinsburg did not let itself become a pawn in this game. If anyone doubted that abortion was on the ballot this November, they need look no further than the small western Minnesota city of Prinsburg. State Republican Rep. Tim Miller, who represents the ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and other government leaders, should be blushing when discussing the state’s budget surplus, which reached an almost unthinkable $17.6 billion in the state’s latest economic forecast Tuesday. “Strong collections and lower-than projected spending” were factors ...