100 Women Who Care THUMBS UP: When ladies get together for lunch, big things can happen. Especially when those ladies are members of 100 Women Who Care. This past week, the New Ulm chapter of 100 Women Who Care held their semi-annual luncheon. These women agree to donate $100 each, and at ...

There must always be a place for necessary whistleblowing from inside governments. This newspaper will always stand, responsibly, for that principle. Yet leaks are also serious matters, which challenge a state. In a particularly serious case, or at a particularly serious time, such as during a ...

As the Minnesota Legislature moves into the final weeks of the regular session, we see nursing home funding, housing and higher education as key issues that will need widespread support. Nursing home crisis Economic pressures and demographic changes have put the state’s nursing homes and ...

Any breach in the integrity of the nation’s system of managing secrets is a cause for serious concern. The leaks of classified intelligence documents online, through Discord, a platform popular with gamers, appears to have compromised fresh and highly sensitive intelligence, a breach that is ...

Minnesotans should speak up as lawmakers consider $2 billion in tax, fee hikes. The Minnesota Legislature is closing in on a tax package that could combine roughly $3 billion in tax cuts with $2 billion in tax increases. If those numbers remain unchanged, they would make for a net cut of $1 ...

Last week, the White House issued an executive order prohibiting federal agencies from using hacking tools that could be harnessed by foreign governments to abuse human rights — forcing firms to stop selling to bad actors or risk losing this country’s valuable business. The rules also block ...