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Opinion

Coping with problems and life

Columns

Life has its ups and downs, good and bad, right and wrong. How would you know good days if it wasn’t for the bad ones? How would you learn what not to do if you didn’t make mistakes? Since that is the way life seems to be, how do we handle the bad times? Those bad times cause ...

AI won’t bow to evolution lies

Letters

Dear Editor: Artificial Intelligence is going to lead people to the Creator. Unlike scholars who deny God, Artificial Intelligence doesn’t carry an agenda, it simply deciphers reason. The only logical explanation for all of creation is an Intelligent Designer. Foolish arrogance is going to ...

Toughening in

Columns

“I just need to toughen in!” So said Old Frank, my new landlord at the time. I was twenty-one in the winter when I rented a small dairy farm, sight unseen, from Old Frank. Old Frank was several years past his eightieth birthday when he and I first crossed paths in a waiting room. ...

Thumbs up/down

Editorials

THUMBS DOWN A sunny weekend obstructed by smog Friday, May 30 should have been a sunny clear day, but the morning started with a haze of smoke. Instead of blue sky, central Minnesota was covered by gray. This was caused by wildfire smoke in northern Minnesota. The Minnesota Pollution Control ...

Feed your curiosity

Columns

Looking back on my high school and college graduations, I can see just how important those moments were. I didn’t fully get it at the time, but graduation really is a big deal. It marks the end of one chapter and the start of another. Right now, a lot of students and families are standing ...

A home run worth every dollar

Columns

For historians, the “Shot Heard Round the World” was fired at Concord to begin the Revolutionary War. For baseball fans, the shot heard round the world was also Bobby Thompson’s home run to win the pennant for the New York Giants in 1951. Then, there was the “Shot Heard Round Sleepy ...