To the editor: The U.S. senate rejected a bill (April 10) that would prohibit men from participating in women’s sports. Not surprising, all the Democrats voted against it including our two esteemed women senators; Klobachur and Smith. If you have tried to email either of them you will ...
To the editor: In my opinion a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for Putin’s Russia, Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, and all other dictatorships. Be very careful. Think. Trump has threatened a bloodbath if he is not elected this time around. He is saying that if the American people, by popular ...
The two men in Carhartt body suits watching their rods along the far side of the creek below the rock dam were a welcome sign. Though their pickups in the parking lot when I arrived suggested there may be more traffic at the out-of-the-way feeder creek where a number of seasons ago the pike ...
Who would’ve believed it from an introverted and quiet farm boy? For quite some years, I’ve been holding wine tasting events. Please understand these events are not world class wine tasting happenings They are meant to be fun. I’ve tasted a rather hefty number of wines, read a bunch ...
I recently felt a pressing need to own a drill press. No farm shop is complete without one and a man isn’t any kind of man if he doesn’t have a drill press. An internet search yielded a perplexing panoply of choices. There are big ones, small ones, short ones, and tall ones. I was ...
This much is true. I hit a home run. For years, Kevin Sweeney, the retired editor of The New Ulm Journal, wrote up New Ulm’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration. It was his way of poking fun at the dour Germans who surrounded him. Kevin reported on true events, like New Ulm’s few Irish ...