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June 15, 2013 Check out festivals It’s finally starting to feel like summer, given warmer weather, more sunshine and the start of the festival season around the area. more »»
Plant, harvest, sell: It should be that simple
June 13, 2013 Imagine Farmer A in Iowa grows corn; Farmer B in Georgia grows peanuts; Farmer C in Kansas grows rice. After harvest, these farmers take their crop to market, selling it. more »»
Conservatives right to block Gitmo closure
June 12, 2013 Most of the 166 prisoners being held at the U.S. prison at the Guantanamo Bay military base are more than “terrorist suspects,” the term used often to describe them. more »»
Democrats, Republicans should not tolerate this
June 11, 2013 Hundreds of rulings handed down by the National Labor Relations Board since January 2012 are, in effect, null and void. more »»
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June 8, 2013 Campus marks 10 years We add our congratulations to Presentation College’s Fairmont campus, which is celebrating being part of the community for 10 years. more »»
Sex offender ‘system’ must undergo reforms
June 7, 2013 The state of Minnesota is holding in custody 700 citizens who have served their time. more »»
Selective outrage boils down to politics
June 6, 2013 ome champions of the free market insist that Congress — usually its liberal wing — simply can’t abide with success. more »»
Federal government remains unaccountable
June 5, 2013 “Taxpayers should take comfort that a conference like this would not take place today,” assured acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel last week. more »»
U.S. must do more to deal with online warfare
June 4, 2013 Think for a moment about what would happen if a foreign power launched a military attack calculated to destroy billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. property — but without causing any injuries or deaths. more »»
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June 1, 2013 County OKs abatement Faribault County commissioners this week approved a 12-year property tax abatement for StateLine Cooperative, which plans to build a grain facility near Guckeen. more »»
Bachmann retirement could help in some ways
May 31, 2013 Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota announced this week that she will not seek re-election to the U.S. House. more »»
Nation cannot tolerate military sexual assaults
May 30, 2013 Clearly, the U.S. armed forces approach to preventing sexual assaults is not working. A year ago, the Pentagon estimated about 19,000 members of the military had been sexually assaulted in 2011. more »»
Why can’t U.S. hunt down Benghazi killers?
May 29, 2013 President Barack Obama’s position on the terrorist attack last fall at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is puzzling in the extreme. U.S. more »»
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May 25, 2013 Worth taking a look The Prairieland waste-processing facility in Truman is considering a new arrangement with Green Photon Power, a worldwide company that helps other firms deal with all forms of... more »»
Her refusal to testify puzzling, illuminating
May 24, 2013 “I have done nothing wrong,” Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner told members of Congress on Wednesday. “I have not broken any laws. more »»
Compromise won’t let critics shut down mining
May 23, 2013 The current oil and natural gas boom in places like North Dakota is fed by a modern drilling practice — “fracking” — that includes the use of sand from places like southeastern Minnesot. more »»
Moving backward as government comes first
May 22, 2013 The 2013 Minnesota Legislature has ended, leaving in its trail one major question: Why? As in why raise taxes $2 billion when there was already new revenue coming in to state coffers? True, there wa... more »»
What about those who enabled killer doctor?
May 21, 2013 It is difficult to read about what went on for years in Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic in Philadelphia without being horrified, sickened and outrage. more »»
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May 18, 2013 School tackles truancy Given the troubling nature of truancy and absenteeism, we agree wholeheartedly with Fairmont Area Schools’ new effort to push students to make class on time, and not to skip it. more »»
In the 21st century, are we still discussing ‘class’?
May 17, 2013 Listening to senators in Minnesota argue about a bill to let unions try to organize daycare providers in the state is really disappointin. more »» |
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