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Opinion

The Electoral College: Has the time come to end it?

Community Voices

More than 200 years ago, our Founding Fathers created a special system for electing presidents, one that aimed to distribute power evenly among the states. They created the Electoral College, under which electors meet after the election to officially cast votes for each state. Whoever wins a ...

We don’t get it

Community Voices

On one of the routes from here to the Cities is a unique sign. You might have seen it. It’s been there for a few years. On a curve is a quaint country church. Out front is an admonition to “Love thy neighbor.” A quarter mile past that, on the bed of an old pickup truck is an 8 by 4 ...

On the Porch

Local Columns

Thomas and Melissa (Mussen) Lindsay moved to Fairview Township in Lyon County in 1872. They lived on their original homestead, which was located in Section 12 of Fairview Township about two miles southeast of Green Valley, until the time of their deaths. Thomas passed away on April 15, 1919, ...

How to fix the Secret Service

Letters to the Editor

A report issued Thursday on the assassination attempt against Donald Trump this summer in Butler, Pa., comes to an alarming conclusion about the Secret Service’s shortcomings. In the absence of “fundamental reform,” it says, “another Butler can and will happen again.” Will that ...

Vote for change

Letters to the Editor

The most important election for the future of Minnesota and the United States of America is on Nov. 5. Never before have we experienced an overbearing and overspending government like we were forced to endure these last four years. With Democrats in control of the House, Senate, attorney ...