Bloodmobile turnout Thumbs Up: The Red Cross is facing drastic shortages in the nation’s blood supply, so much that some hospitals are having to ration blood among patients who need it. So it was important that the New Ulm blood drive, held this week, had a good turnout, and it did. The ...

The U.S. Supreme Court didn’t take long to strike down the Biden Administration’s mandate that large employers must require their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, or wear masks, or undergo weekly testing. The conservative members of the court ruled that OSHA lacks the authority to ...

Hospital capacity is often referred to a “beds,” but the surge in COVID cases has proven that to be misleading. What really affects capacity, hospital administrators will tell you, is people on staff to treat those in the beds. More than beds these days, hospitals need trained people, ...

Over the weekend the Associated Press reported on an AP-NORC poll indicating that people are finding more things to worry about these days than COVID-19. Pushing the pandemic off the front burner is the economy. While concern about how the COVID pandemic is handled waned from 53% a year ago ...

People in New Ulm have the chance this week to give a most precious gift — the gift of life — by turning out for the Red Cross blood drive in town this week. The Bloodmobile will be setting up at the Vogel Field House in the New Ulm Rec Center on Wednesday from 1 to 7 p.m., on Thursday ...

For some reason, carjacking has become far more prevalent in Minnesota over the past year. The number of cases in Minneapolis rose 57 percent in 2021 over the previous year —619 in 2021 compared to 388 the year before. This is not just a Minneapolis problem. All Minnesotans should be ...