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Consider writing my name on ballot

I would like to inform the residents of New Ulm Ward 4 that I’m very interested in and willing to serve as your representative on the City Council if you would choose to write in my name on your ballot. As you may be aware, no one filed to run in this position so that section on your ballot will be blank. I would be honored if you would consider writing in my name and would work hard to represent you on the City Council. As a 38-year New Ulm resident and a recent retiree I feel my experience, positive work ethic and the time I have to devote to this position would be an asset. My ...

Heartfelt thank you to first responders

There was a fundraiser Saturday evening (Aug. 22) for First Responders-the fire department and ambulance—sponsored by Pub 209, with music. My daughter and I stopped to listen on our walk back to her apartment, when I collapsed. She hollered for help and several came running. She said two EMTs gave me CPR for “quite awhile.” So I want to give a “heart felt” thank you to the amazing incredible people who saved my life that night. I hope you know how valuable you are to our community — each and everyone of you. May God Bless you and thank you again. Dianne Schmidtt New Ulm

What’s going on?

There are a lot of buzz words or phrases being used lately. I suppose they are used to sway people’s thinking to vote a certain way. The two in the forefront today are “Christian nationalism” and “Big Tent.” True enough the U.S. is a Christian nation, founded by Christians over 250 years ago. The spiritual intent of the law is to love God and the person next to you. As the “Big Tent” goes there is only one tent. That tent is not big. That “tent” is “you.” Take care of your own little “tent.” Joyce Meyer famously phrases “wisdom is sanctified common ...

Our leaders unable to solve problems

In the movie, The Odessey, the hero Odysseus must sail past the two most evil Goddesses in Greek mythology. On one shore is Scylla, represented by sharp immovable rocks and a six-headed man-eating monster, while on the opposing shore is Charybdis who is portrayed as a violent whirlpool who will suck everybody in and kill them. The similarities between these two Goddesses and our modern political system is unnerving. I see Scylla, and her sharp rocks as representing Republican conservatism while Charybdis is shown a whirlpool similar to liberal Democrats. Isn’t it crazy that American ...

Pro-choice candidates need to meditate

(re: Because of my Catholic faith, Sept. 3) It says: “But, the vulnerable person or group may not always look the same. Sometimes it may be unborn babies. Sometimes, it may be single mothers, or children in our special education programs, or refugee families.” The author makes a case that sometimes you should vote for the politician who cares for born people but who also thinks people in the womb can be killed by abortion. However, the late Jesse Jackson declared in an article he wrote for Right to Life News in 1977: “Life is the highest human good not on its own naturalistic ...

Trump prefers Kim over Carney

Two guys in the news lately are Kim Jong Un and Mark Carney. President Trump takes pains to be polite and respectful to Kim while he tries to bulldoze Carney into dust. Kim Jong Un is the supreme leader of North Korea. When his father died in 2011, State television identified him as “the great successor to the revolutionary cause.” Since then he has become marshal of the Korean National Party, secretary of the Workers Party of Korea, president of the State Affairs Commission, commander-in-chief of the Korean Armed Forces and chairman of the Central Military Commission. Whatever ...