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Justice is done THUMBS UP: Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer who shot Daunte Wright with her 9mm Glock instead of her Taser, was found guilty on Friday of two counts of manslaughter. It is not wrong to feel sorry for Potter. Evidence and body camera video show she did ...

Be ready for carbon monoxide dangers

Last week seven members of a family in the Moorhead area were found dead in their home. While police wouldn’t immediately say what had killed the Hernandez family, they did say there was no sign of obvious trauma. Wednesday, with blood toxicity results in, the authorities announced the ...

COVID’s rebound

A year ago COVID-19 was hammering health care workers, closing schools, stopping sporting events and other large group gatherings. Six months ago, thanks largely to the vaccines that were becoming increasingly available, COVID numbers were dropping and people were looking at leaving masks at ...

Tailpipe standards

President Joe Biden announced a stricter set of mileage and emission standards for U.S. automakers on Monday, perhaps in response to Sen. Joe Manchin sticking a potato in the tailpipe of the Build Back Better Act on Sunday. The bill that Manchin said he couldn’t support contains $555 ...

Manchin holds the power in Senate

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, (W-Va) holds the power in the U.S. Senate in regard to the $2 trillion Build Back Better bill that President Joe Biden is hoping to get passed. To get it through the Senate, which is equally divided between Republicans and Democrats, Biden needs all 50 Democrats ...

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Get mall settled Thumbs Up: City Manager Chris Dalton had some interesting news for the city Economic Development Authority, and indeed for citizens of New Ulm when he announced Tuesday that the city is close to closing on a deal for the Marktplatz Mall. If the city can get that giant white ...