We have been learning about Tracy’s Dave Ziemke, who enlisted in the Army in June 1967 and deployed to Vietnam that December. He served with the 1st Battalion of the 5th Artillery Regiment, north of Vietnam’s capital of Saigon. He experienced heavy combat on Halloween 1968 when he ...

As we approach Women’s History Month in March, I have a seemingly silly but serious question to ask. Where are all the female gnomes? Gnomes have made a comeback recently as those adorable fellows with long bushy beards, bulbous noses, and peaked hats covering their eyes. I see them in ...

Many people in our area have been complaining about how brutal our current winter has been. This leads me to believe that many people have gone soft. That’s because our winter has been, based on my many decades of bitter wintertime experience, pretty much normal. And a person shouldn’t ...

The President of Lithuania urges crossing red lines and I am beginning to reconsider the value of my apartment in Warsaw. “I am really in favor of sending [fighter jets] and crossing all the red lines,” President Gitanas Nausėda said before the European Council meeting last Thursday. ...

A proposal that’s been working its way through committees, and is soon to be on the Senate floor, is the Democrats’ driver’s licenses for all legislation. This bill already passed out of the House of Representatives, and Gov. Tim Walz has indicated he will sign it into law. Previously, ...

We have been learning about Tracy’s Dave Ziemke, who enlisted in the Army in June 1967; trained as a field wireman; and deployed to Vietnam in December 1967. The Army assigned him to the 1st Battalion of the 5th Artillery Regiment, north of Vietnam’s capital of Saigon. About half of ...