Ugliness — it’s about the only way to describe the events that happened in games between the New Ulm and St. Peter high school basketball teams this year. According to a report in the Star Tribune Saturday, reprinted on today’s front page, a St. Peter player was subjected to anti-gay ...

Space hostage THUMBS DOWN: Some people have been complaining over the past several years about the American space program’s lack of access to space. Since the space shuttle program shut down in 2011, U.S. astronauts have been dependent on hitching a ride from other nations like Russia to ...

The Russian strategy in Ukraine has been thwarted since its invasion began by stiffer than expected military resistance and an armed and motivated civilian population that have turned targets like the capital city of Kyiv into fortresses. So the Russians have adopted a new strategy, apparently ...

With gasoline prices at the pump rising like a SpaceX celebrity rocket launch, governors and state lawmakers around the country are looking for ways to ease the impact for their citizens. One idea being pushed is to call a holiday on state or even federal gasoline taxes. These are the ...

Every once in a while we get a letter to the editor from someone complaining about the high price of gas in New Ulm, relative to the price in Mankato or Hutchinson or some other nearby town. Gas prices depend are set by a number of factors, from who the individual station buys it from, how ...

There is a week left in the filing period for candidates to run in the special election to replace the Rep. Jim Hagedorn. So far, the list of candidates is leaning far to the right. Four Republicans have filed to run to fill out the rest of Hagedorn’s term. The one DFLer is Richard W. ...