To the editor: Re: Fix Social Security, April 2 Star Parker, in her piece on Wednesday touting privatizing of Social Security, ignored two facts that completely unravel her tale. First is that during the Golden Era she idolized — the Post-War years — the marginal tax rate for ...
NEW ULM – The New Ulm Film Society will hold strong with a screening of “The Thin Red Line.” The screening starts at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 8 at the New Ulm Library and is the final film in the America at War series. “The Thin Red Line” is a 1998 film based on a 1962 film by James ...
This might be the best time of the year. Believe me when I say I’d like to write about spring or planting or baseball. Then I saw a picture. There was Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Secretary, standing in front of a prison in El Salvador. Behind her, behind bars, were a few dozen men, ...
To the editor: As a lifelong resident of Leavenworth Township, I was raised on our family farm southwest of Sleepy Eye, where I learned the value of hard work, community, and commitment — values I carry with me today. I farm alongside my father on our family farm and am a partner in our ...
Patients that psychologists frequently encounter are people who are cutting themselves. Cutting is a form of self-mutilation. Cutting is not the only form of self-mutilation that people do to themselves. They may also burn themselves, pick pieces of skin out of their body, pull their hair ...
To the editor: A while ago a Fulbright appointment sent me, a local college professor, to teach debate in a very large Asian country. With no freedom of speech there, I was cautioned not to create practice-round topics requiring debaters to criticize any government policy. So I chose ...