Question: I have a rather random, but seasonally appropriate question: with harvest season upon us and with slow moving farm vehicles/implements on roadways, is it permissible to pass a slow-moving farm implement on Minnesota highways in a delineated no-passing zone? If passing is prohibited…
Columns
Confound it! Cotton-picking signs! Consarn it!
Vaping is the new fad of the decade, but the effects of vaping are much worse than an unflattering fashion choice.
Little did I know, lying in a hospital bed in East Jerusalem in 1976 with amoebic dysentery and, well, chicken pox, that I’d be back in Northfield 40-some years later working to generate political pressure for the release of critical U.S. assistance to Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) and the…
Is a padiddle a car winking at other cars?
Letters to the Editor
To the editor:
To the editor:
For thousands of years, governments have been asking how many people live in their borders. That same population question is just as important now as it was then.
Editorials
Farmers are used to dealing with unpredictability when it comes to the weather, commodity prices, even equipment and animal health. But one thing they shouldn’t have to plan for is unpredictability from their government.
Most of us have probably often wondered how first responders deal with the stress they routinely encounter in their jobs. Their work life, while often rewarding, can at any moment become frustrating, gruesome and sad.
Dear Gov. Tim Walz,
2018 ended on a rather disappointing note in Rice County.
The following is a reprint of a now-famous letter and editorial response that first appeared on the editorial page of the “New York Sun,” written in 1897. Happy holidays!
