The 5th U.S. Court of Appeals put a hold on the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate ordering businesses with over 100 employees to have them vaccinated, or get weekly testing. The mandate was to take effect Jan. 4, but the appeals court paused the rule, saying it raised “grave ...

Politics in America has become so polarized in recent years that one wonders if there an effective bipartisan government is going the way of the passenger train and 25-cent a gallon gasoline. Can we have a government where representatives debate, listen to each other, come up with compromises, ...

Help for Nigeria THUMBS UP: Fr. Cornelius Ezeiloaku has been making himself at home in New Ulm for the past few years, serving as a priest in the New Ulm Diocese. But he hasn’t forgotten his home in Onitsha, Nigeria. Fr. Cornelius (it’s easier than Fr. Ezeiloaku) is heading home this ...

It is disappointing that voters in District 88 turned down the two tax levy questions on Tuesday’s ballot. But the failure of the questions is not necessarily a blow to the district. The district was asking to combine two soon-to-expire tax levies into one, and replace the two levies with ...

The Minneapolis Police Department remains in place following Tuesday’s Minneapolis city elections. A ballot question to dissolve the MPD and replace it with a Department of Public Safety (whatever that would look like) was soundly defeated by Minneapolis voters who, apparently, prefer the ...

As the Democrats in Congress worked on the final draft of the $1.75 trillion domestic policy bill, one of the parts that fell by the wayside was legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs. Fortunately, a deal announced Tuesday brings it back into the bill, smaller perhaps than before, ...