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Letters

Two-minute warning

To the editor: Minnesota state law requires that public school boards provide the pubic with opportunity to address the board on school-related issues at their business meetings. Our ISD 88 school board complies with the letter of the law by including a 30-minute public comment period on ...

Gasoline Grinches

To the editor: In the months before Christmas, All through the town, The New Ulm Gas Cartel Kept our prices highest around. They rose and they rose, ‘til they hit $3.19, But never came back down, It clearly was seen. The high prices remained, New Ulmites were sad, They had ...

Christmas kindness

To the editor: Our family has a tradition of preparing German Roladen with red cabbage, pierogen and the famous potato dumplings. It’s a tradition carried on from my Oma and Opa. This year my sister-in-law in the cities and I in Mankato scoured the towns for the potato packages, with zero ...

The Minnesota Difference

To the editor: Your “Our View” from last Friday celebrates that a panel of “impartial” judges from Minnesota will be drawing up legislative and congressional districts in Minnesota. You seem to believe that since Democrats control the House and Republicans control the Senate, they ...

Give power back to the states

To the editor: Why is it that nearly all state and lower level elected officials say they cannot do some of the things that people want them to do? Simply put, they can’t! They don’t have the power or authority as they once did. Why is that you ask? The states gave up most of that power ...

District survey an affront to community

To the editor: The “Community Belonging Survey” being used in our school district may have been put out with the best of intentions by some, but it is, whether intentionally or not, an affront to many of the citizens of our community. The strong implication, by even bringing this forward, ...