After another week in Washington, it was nice to spend the weekend at home in and around Minnesota. Last week, I announced a few major investments in Minnesota’s Sixth Congressional District, from supporting our...
TO THE EDITOR:The citizens of the city of Big Lake have a great opportunity this year to elect Paul Knier to the position of Mayor. Paul has served as city council member and has shown fiscal responsibility and ...
TO THE EDITOR:Andrew Mathews and Shane Mekeland have been representing this district and have done an excellent job. With all that is happening we need them to continue to represent us. Both of them try as hard ...
TO THE EDITOR:Big Lake School Board Election – Need More InformationOver the past couple weeks the Patriot published profiles of the (5) people running for the three open seats on the Big Lake School Board. Whi...
TO THE EDITOR:In his letter in last week’s Patriot, Mr. Chris Rauch suggested the “Common theme” was no compliance by the subject, leading to police shootings. He was silent on the other “common theme;” that is,...
TO THE EDITOR:I'm writing to encourage Big Lakers to vote for Paul Knier for mayor on November 3.I've known Paul for more than a decade and can assure you that his passion for serving the people of Big Lake is u...
We have finished the first couple weeks of school here at Becker Public Schools. It is very refreshing to see all of the students back in our classrooms and excited to be here. As this current situation contin...
Several mornings a week, I rise early and head out to my favorite patch of late blooming flowers. It’s a large patch of tall, bright yellow flowers. At this time of year there isn’t a lot of flowers that are blo...
There has been a lot of conversation about voting during a pandemic. Thankfully, Minnesota has had a history of bipartisan and commonsense elections laws for many years that made significant changes to voting un...
As the weather starts to shift and another Minnesota winter creeps closer, infrastructure safety is critically important.Last week, I announced a $15 million dollar investment in Minnesota’s Sixth Congressional ...
