‘Language of Liberty’ rings many familiar bells
Many Americans, including me, yawned or snoozed our way through high-school civics classes. In ninth grade, we had to memorize...
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Thank you, Liz Cheney, for the troubling truth
(This is an open letter I sent May 12 to Rep. Liz Cheney.) Honorable Rep. Liz Cheney, Thank you! After...
Minnesota optimism jinxed it again
We’re all guilty of it. After being cryogenically preserved from October through April, we get a little too overly optimistic...
Statement on community policing
by Jim Steve St. Joseph In 2014, the St Cloud Police Department reached out to leaders in the Greater St....
Three cheers for local ‘Pandemic Poet Laureate’
Juliana Howard of St. Joseph could well be dubbed the local “Poet Laureate of the Pandemic.” Recently, she wrote four...
Get off the forklift if you can’t handle it
Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter April 20 in...
Voting laws protect rights of all Americans
Amanda Thompson Guest writer St. Joseph I will admit I have grown tired of only seeing liberal letters in the “Opinion”...
I quit smoking; you can too!
(Note to readers: This column was published before, some years ago. Recently, a reader wrote to say she’d had that...