Opinion
The legend of Staples-Motley 1999 still runs through Minnesota cross country
By Mark Anderson
Managing Editor
Minnesota is known as one of the top cross-country running states in the nation. A significant part of that culture emerged with the 1998-1999 Staples-Motley cross country team that is...
Quote of the week
“What does labor want?
We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact,
more of the opportunities to
cultivate our better natures.”
— Samuel Gompers
(...
Indigenous knowledge and healthy forests
By Keith Karnes
Forestry Director
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe shares more boundary with the federally managed National Forest System than any other Tribe in the United States, with 75% of the reservation border adjoining the...
Region Five Development Commission (R5DC) congratulates two agricultural mental health specialists recognized as outstanding providers. Ted Matthews and Monica McConkey provide dedicated counseling services to farmers and farm families throughout Minnesota in an innovative program funded by the...
Quote of the week
“June is bustin’ out all over, all over the
meadow and the hill. Buds’re bustin’ outa bushes, and the rompin’ river pushes,
ev’ry little wheel that wheels beside a mill.”
— Rodgers and Hammerstein
(“South Pacific”)
New ways of presenting arts, supporting artists
By Mark...
By Chad Coauette
Chief Executive Officer, Sourcewell
The sound of a telephone ringing a number of years ago triggered a recent Sourcewell trip to Washington D.C. The Sourcewell board of directors and several Sourcewell staff recently returned from the Pentagon where we signed a ground-breaking...
Senior cohousing seen as antidote to loneliness epidemic
By Nancy P. Kropf
Dean of Perimeter College & Professor of Social Work at Georgia State University
and Sherry Cummings
Associate Dean and Profesor of Social Work at University of Tennessee
One of the major questions of growing older is...
By Mark Anderson
Managing Editor
Apparently the Garage Logic podcast guys really liked the Staples World story about the moose that traveled through the area before Thanksgiving last year.
Last week, I got a phone call saying that the people on the podcast had gotten a copy of the newspaper and...
Congressman Pete Stauber recently traveled to Cochise County, Arizona with his Western Caucus colleagues to hear from United States Border Patrol agents and local law enforcement agents about the ongoing border crisis. He also had the opportunity to participate in a House Natural Resources...
First year as Mayor sees city buzzing with activity
By Ron Murray
Staples Mayor
Hello again to the people of Staples. I have finished my first year as Mayor and have enjoyed all the things I have learned about our great city and getting to know our staff even better.
We said goodbye to a long...
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