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Opinion

Work through your fears

Columns

One emotion that we hope to experience rarely is fear. Fear should not be confused with anxiety or stress. Anxiety is what you feel when faced with a possible, imagined, anticipated, future threat. Maybe a policeman behind you turns on his lights and siren. His actions may have,nothing to do ...

Congratulations to Journal

Letters

To the editor: We wish to extend our heartfelt congratulations to the New Ulm Journal for their recent achievements at the Minnesota Newspaper Association (MNA) awards banquet. If you missed the article, here is a quick recap of the awards brought home by the Journal. Sports Editor ...

Marching toward spring

Columns

This winter hasn’t been too bad in our neck of the woods. We have little to complain about, but that won’t stop us from doing so. It’s not as if winter hasn’t left a mark. It has. We recently endured levels of subzero cold that are often associated with the formation of vast areas ...

One question, several million answers

Letters

To the editor: Why aren’t there any Musk signs strewn about the lawns or flags flying faded and torn from the flag poles and decks across outstate Minnesota? It’s a rhetorical question. I know why. And that begs the follow-up question: What is Elon Musk doing in the White House? A ...

Give Brad a call, let him know he works for us

Letters

Give Brad a call, let him know he works for us To the editor: Our country is seeing unprecedented and unchecked changes to our government at the presidential level of government that could put our entire Democracy in Peril. I have written our First Congressional District Representative, ...

Men also struggle with eating disorders

Columns

When we think of Eating Disorders we typically think of females. Depending on the study, about 90 percent of people with an eating disorder are women or girls. What is not mentioned or is ignored is that about 10 percent of people with eating disorders are males. There was a study that showed ...