The Marshall Public School District is following the lead of few smaller school districts in the area and seriously considering implementing an e-learning days program to be used on scheduled school days during inclement weather. An “e-learning day” means a school day where a school ...
While the federal government is cutting back on clean energy research and support programs, Minnesota is one of the states leading the charge to reduce greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. A good percentage of that effort isn’t coming from the state Capitol, but rather in the private ...
At Jeffers Petroglyphs, a Minnesota Historical Society site near New Ulm, 5,000 ancient and sacred Native American rock carvings of bison, turtles, thunderbirds and humans can be viewed. The carvings are estimated to be up to 7,000 years old. Visitors can walk across these carvings, examining ...
City scores on basketball court award THUMBS UP: Marshall Council member Steven Meister is right — the news that construction will begin this summer on a special basketball court in Marshall is “fantastic.” The project to refurbish the basketball court at Independence Park is ...
President Donald Trump’s brand of economic brinksmanship is nerve-wracking, but it seems to have worked in his push to get Mexico to do more to stem the flow of Central American migrants heading through their country to the U.S. Trump made the extraordinary threat of slapping a 5 percent ...
On Monday, Gov. Tim Walz gave reporters from Greater Minnesota an update on education spending. His office shared numbers that added up to good news for the Marshall Public Schools District. While the Legislature continues to support prekindergarten funding, Walz is seeking more. He vowed to ...
It would have been a normal obituary submitted by loved ones. Except there was one line that made it different. “This wet spring just got too much for our farmer.” Farming can be a very rewarding profession. But it can also be a traumatic experience during hard times. Today, farmers are ...
The traditional view of rural America is of a red barn, dairy cows grazing in the pasture, and family members working side-by-side. That slice of nostalgia is getting more and more difficult to conjure up as major changes rock the dairy industry. Small family dairy farms are apparently on ...
Parking dilemma in downtown area THUMBS DOWN: Traffic on Main Street through downtown Marshall gets pretty brisk during weekday business hours. That’s a good sign for area merchants. But we heard the downside Wednesday morning during the Marshall Downtown Business Association meeting. ...
Federal Aviation Administration acting chief Daniel Elwell was on the Capitol Hill hot seat a couple of weeks ago — and members of Congress were right to grill him harshly. Elwell was called before the aviation subcommittee in the House of Representatives to answer questions about the ...
Thank you, Beijing, for making it clear to Americans how short-sighted we have been for many years. Chinese officials have issued a new threat as part of their reaction to President Donald Trump’s increases in tariffs on some goods imported here from China. His purpose is to force Beijing ...
It’s been more than a month since damage to a pipeline caused 8,000 gallons of diesel fuel to spill into Yellow Medicine/Lyon Judicial Ditch 24 which flows into the Yellow Medicine River. Fortunately, first responders reacted quickly and contained the spill before it caused major ...
Legislature: Minnesota became better with bipartisan budget While the ghosts of the no new taxes crowd haunted the Minnesota Capitol this year, reason prevailed and the ghosts were banished to the place they hate most: the place of compromise. If media tend to focus on the negative and the ...
Hillary Clinton called them “the deplorables.” Barack Obama called them losers who “cling” to their Bibles, bigotries and guns. To President Jean-Claude Juncker of the European Commission, they are “these populist, nationalists, stupid nationalists... in love with their own ...
The cascading effects of U.S. protectionism on U.S. producers and consumers constitute an ongoing tutorial about what Daniel Patrick Moynihan called “iatrogenic government.” In medicine, an iatrogenic ailment is one inadvertently caused by a physician or medicine. Iatrogenic government — ...
In the end, by-the-book Robert Mueller departed wildly from the book. He invented an extraconstitutional legal standard for his obstruction investigation and acted, at best, in violation of the spirit of the special-counsel regulations. His departing act was a public statement meant to ...
The quote is attributed to President Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan kept it on his desk: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” It is even more amazing what has been accomplished with the American economy, but Democratic presidential candidates, ...
As the 2020 election gears up, it seems apparent that Mike Pence’s days as vice president are numbered. Trump’s preference is obvious: Kim Jong Un. The vice-presidential candidate often plays the attack dog in a campaign — hurling invectives, slinging mud and taking the heat for ...
Minnesota lawmakers come through for pre-kindergarten programs THUMBS UP: Marshall Public Schools received good news this week when it was confirmed that the Minnesota Legislature passed an education finance bill that included $46.79 million for pre-kindergarten classes across the state. ...
Lost for 17 days in a Hawaiian jungle, all alone in only a tank top and capri yoga pans, I’m not sure what I would do. Would I work past my fractured leg, blistered wounds and terror to survive? Would I eat mystery fruit and moths and sleep in the mud or a wild boar’s den? Would I ...