No matter where you drive these days in Minnesota, or for that matter — across the nation — road construction is hot and heavy this summer. Construction work has started on U.S. Highway 59 near Marshall and Garvin. The concrete repair work will happen in two segments. Later this ...

Last weekend, several media outlets reported the Biden Administration forwarded questions to a couple of radio hosts ahead of interviewing the U.S. president. A revelation that is not shocking to most journalists covering politicians these days. CNN’s Victor Blackwell asked the host of ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced $25 million in funding availability from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to increase high-speed internet access in rural and tribal communities. The funding is made available through the USDA’s Broadband Technical Assistance (BTA) Program, part ...

“I was one of the lucky ones.” That quote was taken from the Independent special section “Honoring Our Heroes.” (June 29) The section honored military veterans in southwest Minnesota. Gib Christensen of Granite Falls was one of the veterans profiled. He deployed with the National ...

Independence Day: freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower Two-hundred-forty-eight years ago, the Declaration of ...

By now, we all heard the different versions of the upside-down flag outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. The apparent dispute between Alito’s wife and a neighbor reached peculiar levels. In short, a neighbor admitted in one media outlet of posting a profanity-laced ...