With ice glazing the streets and an afternoon indoors ahead of the holiday stretch thanks to a rainy mix of early-winter weather, I had time in my mind to review all the great experiences and events on the water in the past year. Swiping through the photos on my phone, I smiled as the seasons ...

I looked out my window and was offered a lesson for life. The snow had fallen. The roads and sidewalks were covered with a film of white stuff and ice. Once again, the lesson learned years ago marched through my head. Be patient, take it easy, slow down! But being so darn sure of myself, I ...

With the holidays upon us I wanted to share a message about distracted driving. Here is some information we recently shared on our Department of Public Safety blog. “It was supposed to be a routine trip for 20-year-old Megan Severson. On Oct. 17, 2019, Severson was driving from Preston in ...

This Yuletide season has seemed a bit peculiar for my wife and me. Our impression that this was an off-kilter Christmas was mainly due to a summer and fall that passed in a blur of chemotherapy and radiation treatments and doctor’s appointments to treat my tonsil cancer. We were in ...

Nationally, nearly every local area in the U.S. raises revenue through property taxes, and these taxes represent the largest tax revenue source in 94 percent of localities. Property taxes are also the dominant tax revenue source for local governments here in Minnesota, generating more than any ...

We have been learning about Sharon McCully, who grew up in rural southwest Minnesota, graduated from Russell High School in 1957, trained as a registered nurse in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and practiced nursing for six years before volunteering for an Air Force Nurse Corps commission in 1968. ...