Leona Wieland, Sartell President Trump continues to lead rabble-rousing rallies, campaigning as a President has never done before. He incites people to be violent while claiming to be the candidate of “law and order.” The highest law is love. Our country, its government, states and people need no more violence, division or hypocrisy. Why does President Trump think he’s above the
Mayor Rick Schultz a good choice
Joe Perske, Stearns County Commissioner St. Jo(seph) voters should feel confident in casting their vote to re-elect Mayor Rick Schultz. I have been very pleased working cooperatively with Mayor Schultz over the past 10 years. Serving with Rick as a fellow mayor and now as a Stearns County commissioner, I have witnessed his commitment and dedication to work hard for
Lewandowski works well with others
David Hiedeman, Sauk Rapids I have known Alex Lewandowski since he was a student in my first-grade classroom. I have watched him grow up over the years to become the outstanding person he is today. I have also had the privilege of working with him as a coach in youth-sports programs. Through those programs he developed strong leadership skills, effective
Puzzled about abortion rights
Jim Kuebelbeck, St. Joseph I have a question. I am baffled. I am totally puzzled. Perhaps some reader can enlighten me. How can any moral person affiliate themselves with a political party or candidate whose political platform includes (demands) the right of a woman to freely kill her unborn child if she so chooses. I happen to live in an
Lewandowski is a hard worker
Dave Stang, Watkins I want to express my support for Alex Lewandowski, candidate for Sartell City Council. As a long-time family friend, I have known Alex since he was young and have found him to be a tremendously hard worker, with a follow-through and dedication to any task he is assigned to do. His attention to detail and his great
End the chaos, begin the healing
Jean Abercrombie, St. Joseph The current occupant of the White House took out a full-page ad in the New York Times demanding the death penalty be brought back for the five young Black men convicted for assault and rape in Central Park in 1989. Later, he repeatedly accused Barack Obama of not having been born in America. The young men
America is in danger of extinction
Denis Grossen, Sartell It has been said repeatedly, this November election is the most important ever. What is at stake, however, is the survival of a national structure based on virtues that have been, from the start, unique and different. The Founding Fathers produced a Constitution to empower individuals and give them the unique capability to define, limit and control
Voting is our only weapon
Joan Schramm, St. Joseph I recently read a book titled “Leadership in Turbulent Times” by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Two sentences drew my attention that I would like to share. In 1840 Abraham Lincoln, then a member of the Illinois State Legislature, said, “Such men of ‘towering’ egos, in whom ambition is divorced from the people’s best interests, were not men