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Editorials

Have we grown in the past year?

Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary since George Floyd gasped out his life under the knee of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. It has been a year of violence sparked by Floyd’s killing starting Minneapolis and St. Paul and spread across the country. It has been a year in ...

Good news on COVID-19 front

Minnesota had a good weekend with the COVID-19 news. Active cases are down to 5,720, our lowest point since mid-September. The number of hospitalized patients is down, and the number of new hospitalizations is falling. No new deaths due to COVID-19 were reported in the state on Monday. ...

Need for police force becoming apparent

Attitudes in America toward police forces and police tactics have been mixed and confusing in the past year. So it has been in Minneapolis this past year. Since the killing of George Floyd a year ago, there has been a push to defund the police, to dissolve the police force and replace it ...

Thumbs Up/Down

Armory construction THUMBS UP: The construction of the new National Guard Armory and field maintenance shop in New Ulm has begun. A groundbreaking ceremony was held this week for the field maintenance shop,. This will be completed in 2022, with the National Guard Readiness Center, or armory, ...

End of a truly unusual school year

Graduation season is upon us, and the 2020-21 school year is coming to a close. This has been a school year like few others, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There was some wonder at the beginning of the year how it would work to bring hundreds of students together in classrooms at a time when ...

Let independent panel investigate Jan. 6 insurrection

When a mob of Trump supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, trying to stop the the members of Congress as they tried to validate the results of the November presidential election, it was an act of insurrection unlike anything since the Civil War. Now, as some members of Congress ...