Worker Paid Leave Issues
(Editor’s Note: The following column was submitted by Rep. Shane Mekeland.)House Democrats approved legislation Tuesday which will hurt employee wages and damage businesses by establishing a mandatory paid leave...
Editorials
Our Worst Border Crisis
(Editor’s Note: The following column was submitted by Rep. Tom Emmer.)Under President Biden, America has experienced the worst border crisis in our history. In the past two years, President Biden and congression...
Letters To The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:Why is Sherburne County still paying full price for the Northstar Train? If you bought an expensive minivan using a car loan for which you have to pay $800 a month to drive your family around, but ...
Face-To-Face is Best
An old, dear friend of mine had contacted me several months ago with the hope of re-connecting and salavging a damaged friendship we developed thanks to scoial media.He (let’s call him Hank) and I had had some h...
Limiting Federal Spending
Last week, we finished a two-week stretch of session in Washington, D.C. that concluded with the passage of our proposal that limits federal spending, saves taxpayers money, and works to grow our economy…This bi...
Letters To The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:How Dumb Do They Think We Are? Last week’s story on how the tax rates are down across the county is yet another blatant attempt to hide how the county is spending more each year causing your proper...
When is a Duck Not a Duck?
The answer is…. when it is a merganser. So, what is a merganser? The mergansers are fish eating ducks with many different adaptations that make them very different from ducks, yet they are considered in the duck...
Portrait of a Winner
( S. L. Brown, (Sandra Louise) was my mother. She passed away a few years back. This story was written by her in 1985, when she went back to college and entered a writing contest. The time frame of this story ta...
The Cranes are Back
I’ve noticed an unusually large number of sandhill cranes flying over the farm so far this year.I don’t always see them, but it’s easy to recognize their trumpeting call as they fly by.It could be a few from a ...
Spring Migration
The spring migration is an exciting time in the natural world. Compared to the fall or autumn migration, the spring migration is faster, more agile, and it definitely seems to have an air of urgency. This is bec...
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