In less than a month the U.S. will mark the 20th anniversary of the disastrous September 11 attack by al-Qaida on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. We went to war in Afghanistan to drive out the terrorists based there and oust the Taliban government that ...

America is pulling out of its longest war, the 20-year excursion in Afghanistan. Our enemy, the Taliban regime that we supposedly ousted in 2002 for hosting the Al Qaeda terrorist group, has not waited for us to pull our troops and civilian support people out of the country. They have mounted a ...

COVID changes THUMBS DOWN: It is discouraging how the COVID-19 numbers are rising at a time when we had been getting used to maskless freedom and the ability to gather with friends. Just as the Brown County Fair starts and we prepare for the Minnesota State Fair and back to school days, the ...

It took a long time to produce it, but the U.S. Census Bureau has released demographic data and statistics that tell us a lot about what’s happening in America. Primarily, the Census data will be used to set congressional district and legislative boundaries across the country. Redistricting ...

Gov. Tim Walz announced on Wednesday that state workers would be required to show they have been vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to work, or take weekly COVID tests to prove they are COVID negative. It’s a move that is being made by companies, schools and states across the ...

Give the United States Senate credit for doing something that hasn’t been seen in Congress for years. On Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats alike came together to pass the trillion dollar Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. By a vote of 69-30, the Senate gave President Joe Biden n ...