To the editor: Here we go again. Another Trump failure, this time the cuts end up biting Texas. Trump cuts the National Weather Service and Texas has a flash flood. No one knew it was coming. This sounds familiar, just like the COVID pandemic. Even though the Obama administration had put ...
Question: I heard some talk about a new law of July 1st that allows motorcycles to drive through traffic. Can you explain this as a lot of my friends are talking but I can’t get the same answer from any of them. Answer: Motorcycle lane splitting and filtering are legal on Minnesota roads as ...
A good deal of what we see and ultimately come to love about the outdoors happens in those places with which we are most familiar. We pick up on the call of birds in the trees around a favorite flow or note the rise of certain fish on a calm summer morning at the lakes we visit to angle during ...
In the middle of a quick conversation with a friend, a bit of wisdom came out. We were chatting and laughing while at a library cookie fundraising event. As he walked away, he turned, smiled, raised his cookies and stated: “We should never lose the child within us.” It was such an ...
Of all the root crops known to humankind — and I’m including rutabagas and cattail rhizomes here — my favorite is the humble radish. Radishes are a good source of vitamin C, minerals, and bad breath. But their benefits don’t end there. They don’t even begin there. Radishes also ...
We have been learning about Ann (Benson) Rudolph, who graduated from high school in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, in 1960 and from the nursing program at Northfield’s St. Olaf College in 1964. She owed the Army two years’ service as a nurse for their financial support during her senior year of ...