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Opinion

Support year-round E15

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: I urge everyone to make the sensible decision to support year-round E15. Supporting E15 would be especially meaningful now, as corn farmers face the most dire economic conditions they’ve seen this century. As MCGA has noted for years, ensuring permanent year-round E15 is one ...

Ask a Trooper

Local Columns

Question: I heard about a thing called “Vanessa’s Law” the other day and I wasn’t quite sure what it was all about. I know it has to do with new or young drivers. Answer: Vanessa Weiss was killed just days before her 16th birthday in May 2003. In her memory, Vanessa’s Law was ...

Don’t blabber

Local Columns

Have you ever blabbered? If you are like any of the rest of us, you have probably, at some point, overly chattered about something. Maybe that speech pattern is part of your personality, or perhaps, you were so excited about the subject that you just couldn’t stop talking about it. ...

The place of morals in life

Community Voices

Morals and living a moral life are needed to have a successful life. Morals can be a strong contributor to making the best,correct decisions. What are morals? By the book, morals are what is right and what is wrong. It is an understanding of what is good or bad behavior. They contribute ...

School officials lose trust over reductions

Community Voices

If a person were to attend, or watch on local TV the Marshall School District board meetings, one of the first items every time is an open forum. While the board specifically states that no action will be taken, they are there to “listen to what is brought up” during this open forum ...

Safeguard fishing by strengthening laws

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: In response to Rep. Chris Swedzinski’s Feb 7, 2026 fishing regulation proposal article: The best way to improve the quality of fishing in our local lakes is to improve the quality of our water. This will have a much greater effect than increasing the number of lines we can ...