In the wake of the most egregious and embarrassing presidential debate in modern history, the Commission on Presidential Debates is examining ways to prevent a similar debacle in the three remaining events. A popular sentiment on social media — and mentioned by the commission later — is ...

Players need their parents in the stands THUMBS UP: Apparently political and public pressure led to the Minnesota State High School League to reconsider its prohibition on spectators for events in public school this fall. The Independent published two submissions in the Thursday edition. ...

There are some who had hoped that President Donald Trump’s coming down with COVID-19 would impress upon him the seriousness of the disease and get him to at least start wearing a facemask. But once he got back to the White House on Monday, off came the mask for a photo op and off he strolled, ...

Breonna Taylor’s family is right: The system failed her. She should be alive today, but she is not. It is too late to save Taylor, who died in a hail of bullets from three police officers in Louisville, Kentucky one night in March. It is not too late for law enforcement officials ...

Were the COVID-19 virus to be a creature capable of thought, it would be easy now to accuse it of engaging in a plot aimed at American democracy. The most devious, evil schemer based in Moscow or Beijing could not come up with a more perfect storm leading up to the Nov. 3 election. With ...

Connecting ag with students THUMBS UP: With our farmers in southwest Minnesota driving their combines from sunrise to sunset during this harvesting season, there is no better time for Gov. Tim Walz proclaiming October as Minnesota Farm to School month. According state of Minnesota press ...