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Opinion

Ending the era of unchecked fraud in Minnesota

Community Voices

Minnesotans have always taken pride in our work ethic and our commitment to looking out for our neighbors. We pay our taxes with the understanding that those hard-earned dollars will be used to build our roads, defend our borders, and provide a hand up for the most vulnerable among us. But ...

The time is now to address forever chemicals in our environment

Editorials

Municipalities across the nation and Minnesota are dealing with the PFAS dilemma. PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a group of long-lasting chemicals that are found in our clothes and kitchenware among other things, according to the National Library of Medicine. The substances ...

20 mph plenty on city streets

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: It is pathetic that our community has had another car-hitting-student-pedestrian-accident. Marshall needs to focus on creating safer ways for non-vehicled citizens to get around. Twenty (mph) is plenty and it’s long overdue for the city of Marshall to enact and enforce a 20 ...

Solve our problems by following the Constitution

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: It’s truly sad to see how far from our Constitutional principles we have fallen as the self proclaimed “progressives” continue with their chants of this is what democracy looks like. Our Founders wrote a Constitution creating a republican form of government giving the ...

Alcohol and the teen brain

Community Voices

The importance of the brain cannot be overstated. Without it, we would just be lumps of flesh. Damage it, and we malfunction. It determines everything we do, keeps us alive by monitoring and running our body, stores our memories, triggers our emotions, allows us to speak, determines how ...