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Editorials

Be cautious in kitchen while preparing your Thanksgiving feast

On the night before Thanksgiving and the day of, many of our kitchens could double as disaster areas. Dirtied pots and pans stacked in the sink. Mixing bowls covered in food. Flakes of pumpkin pie crust on the floor. Preparing a Thanksgiving feast for family and friends is a dirty ...

Don’t expect Trump to start playing by the rules

Don’t misunderstand what Donald Trump means when he says he’s running for president again, as he did Tuesday evening. He doesn’t mean that he will present his case to the American people in 2024 in the expectation that a majority of them will choose him, as they have never done before ...

Biden’s student loan forgiveness an abuse of power

Things aren’t going well for President Biden’s student loan cancellation. On Monday the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals enjoined the $400 billion write-off, its second legal defeat in days. This is what happens when the President subverts the law for election politics. The appellate ...

The Catholic Church and the scandal

On his plane back to Rome from a Middle East trip recently, Pope Francis acknowledged that the Vatican faces pushback in its efforts to overhaul the Catholic Church’s habits of denial, secrecy and coverup surrounding clerical sexual abuse. “There are people within the church who still do ...

Combating rising catalytic converter thefts

Catalytic converter thefts are not just a Twin Cities problem. They also take place right here in southern Minnesota. In June of 2021 seven felony counts and a dozen total counts were filed in Brown County District Court against a 26-year-old Granite Falls man accused of being involved with ...

Congrats, candidates, now get to work

Tuesday’s voting offered some upsets and surprises, but, most of all, it revealed who the people want to lead them in everything from the statehouse to county courthouses to city halls. To every victorious candidate, we say congratulations. And we say now’s the time to get to ...