Let’s heed Martinez’s angry questions
We should all listen carefully to Richard Martinez, and we should keep listening with a resolute intention to help alleviate...
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Brain damage? Look who’s talking
Mud-flinging Meister Karl Rove is stooping to new lows, demonstrating once again the insecurities that shiver through the Republican Party...
Northstar ride leads to breezy conversation
Last Sunday afternoon, when I boarded a Northstar railroad car in Minneapolis, I thought for a split second I’d entered...
America has a debt
Today, as a veteran, I am enraged. I am enraged 40 veterans have died waiting for treatment at a VA...
It’s time to abolish executions
A rope that was too long led to the abolition of the death penalty in Minnesota. A convicted man, 28-year-old...
Easter-egg hunt goes high-tech
I’m always up for a treasure hunt. As a child I remember a small version of one, let’s call it...
Newsleader celebrates quarter-century mark
From the April 28, 1989 edition (first edition of the St. Joseph Newsleader) Welcome to the St. Joseph Newsleader I...
Bundy’s not a patriot; he’s a lawbreaker
It looked, at first, like scenes from a Technicolor wide-screen western epic movie, circa 1950s. There stood rancher Cliven Bundy,...
