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Opinion

On the Porch

Local Columns

The following information is from a newspaper article in the Marshall Messenger from Nov, 28, 1946: “Marshall in all probability will have Christmas lighting on its business streets this year despite the brownout caused by the coal strike, and cancellation of its evergreen ...

Books and Beyond

Local Columns

“The Cat Who Came for Christmas, by Cleveland Amory,” c 1987 is a wonderful book to read. I often pick up this book to a page I’ve marked (it’s my book), and think about a passage like the one on page 76 that tells us that President Abraham Lincoln found three half-frozen kittens at ...

Ask a Trooper

Local Columns

Question: Who is responsible for making sure the roadway is cleaned up and free from spilled liquids, glass and other car parts from a crash?   Answer: I have noticed that responding agencies and tow companies usually work as a team to treat the injured, direct traffic, investigate the ...

Wrapping and prepping

Local Columns

A quick walk for pheasants on a warming Saturday morning, and a quiet sit at the deer stand Sunday before the weather shifted allowed me some alone time to draw up the boxes of things to do ahead of those seasons’ end, beyond the obvious of filling a muzzleloader tag and getting a few more ...

Taking cheap shots at Gov. Walz

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: I fear that the incivility and meanness that former President Trump, now President elect, brought to bear on this nation‘s political climate is contagious. Cal Ludeman‘s public forum letter vilifying our Minnesota Governor Walz by using belittlement and taking cheap shots ...