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 ...

Right the first time Thumbs Down: Sen. Ted Cruz went groveling to Tucker Carlson Thursday, to apologize and seek forgiveness for describing what happened a year earlier as “a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol.” On Carlson’s show, he apologized, and said, “The way I phrased ...

More than 16 million American men and women served in World War II. Today there are only about 240,000 remaining. What brings that to mind is that this week the oldest surviving WWII veteran died. Lawrence N. Brooks, who served in the U.S. Army during the war, was 112 years old when he died ...

Today is the anniversary of one of the darkest moments in our democracy’s history. One year ago thousands of people heeded President Trump’s call to come to Washington to protest the election results. After a rally at which Trump addressed them and told them to march to the Capitol where ...