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Community Voices

Small changes for less cancer

The latest headlines tell us eating processed and ultraprocessed foods may increase the risk of various cancers. A new study suggests that risk can be reduced by replacing even a small amount of processed foods with an equal amount of minimally processed foods. Processed food covers a wide ...

Upcoming projects and work for the City of Marshall

The upcoming months will be busy for the City of Marshall. Some background information on key projects and topics for the City Council and staff: Completion of Downtown Street Project The North Third Street and West Lyon Street Improvement project includes full reconstruction and utility ...

Legalized marijuana: state lawmakers should have just said no

If someone would have told me 40 years ago that the Minnesota Legislature would someday legalize marijuana, I’d have told them that it would never happen. I was a Nancy Reagan “Just Say No” kid back in the 1980s. We were taught that marijuana was bad, that people who smoked it were ...

May is stroke awareness month

It takes a second to say hello. Or to save a life. As National Stroke Awareness Month unfolds for us, it’s a good time to review how to respond to the potentially debilitating or fatal threat of stroke: similar to a heart attack, it’s a brain attack. Strokes happen when blood flow to ...

Small changes for less cancer

The latest headlines tell us eating processed and ultraprocessed foods may increase the risk of various cancers. A new study suggests that risk can be reduced by replacing even a small amount of processed foods with an equal amount of minimally processed foods. Processed food covers a wide ...

Caught in the gears of the death row machine

On May 18 Richard Glossip is scheduled to die at the Oklahoma State Prison in McAlester. If all goes according to schedule this will be the fourth time he’s faced death in “Big Mac.” I was there for two of those times. Glossip was convicted in 1997 and again in 2004 of murder for ...