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Letters to the Editor

A tale of two school boards

To the editor: In the March 31 edition of the Minnesota Star Tribune, there was an article that the Bemidji school board voted to keep an elementary school open for at least another year despite facing a deficit of $3.5 million. What I found interesting is that hundreds of parents and ...

‘No Kings Rallies’ hard to ignore

To the editor: The past weekend was an opportunity to pause and take stock of our current administration’s complete lack of understanding of how things work. Even after repeated lessons from the not so recent past, and the evidence placed squarely in front of them. The third “No Kings ...

No penalty for gravel haulers

To the editor: Thomas Paine argued the government of our nation should have two purposes: protecting private property, and securing the free market. Apparently, Minnesotans never did get that colonial memo. Any government allowing private gravel carriers to damage other vehicles by failing to ...

Headless Hydra politics

To the editor: The hydra is a tiny animal that does not appear to die. Cut it in pieces! Each part regenerates. In legend, Hercules fought a many headed monster hydra. As he cut off each head, two more emerged. Finally, Hercules cut off heads as his nephew burned the Hydra’s stumps to kill ...

9-1-1 situation in Washington, D.C.

To the editor: We have to stop our president. He is on the brink of throwing us into World War 3, and it's just a bit of fun to him. He started an illegal war. The population isn't willing. The world hates us. It would be a disaster. Contact our representatives, and demand he be stopped ...

All the money can’t replace resources

It is very disheartening to see the future, in the form of Braxton Seifert, arguing for cheaper energy prices at the expense of clean air and potable water and good soil. Money will not replace the Earth's resources. It is only right that big corporations should be held responsible for damage ...