Opinion
Rural news media will help vaccine rollout
By Al Cross
Director and Professor, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky
Rural hospitals and other health-care providers face special challenges in getting coronavirus vaccines to the public, but rural news media,...
Arts changed in 2020, will revive in 2021
By Mark Turner
Executive Director
Five Wings Arts Council
As 2020 comes to a close (thank goodness), I am truly humbled and inspired by the dedication, hard work, resiliency and passion of our Five Wings Arts community. It is tempting to look back and...
Schools keeping up with COVID-19 needs
By Shane Tappe
Staples-Motley Schools Superintendent
As we continue to navigate this unprecedented school year, I feel a deep sense of gratitude for the resolve and commitment of Staples-Motley School students, teachers, staff and families.
Throughout the...
Covering our great community
I like the Staples World paper and staff. The photographs on the front page are often “works of art” that would be hard to beat by any newspaper.
I’m especially reminded of the evening shot of the local township staying open for voters. It was always a “chatty” fun...
Data shows Americans increased time with newspapers during pandemic
By Bob Sillick
Editor and Publisher Magazine
When the pandemic struck, news was as essential to the public as the most important household items they were panic-buying at stores or online. Although TV viewership increased,...
By Mark Anderson
Managing Editor
The newspaper is a public forum. As such, we like for our readers to submit story ideas, photos, opinions and reactions every week.
Unlike social media, the newspaper screens out hate speech, false information, and unfair personal attacks. That is why we consider...
By Mike Holst
I dreamed a dream the other night that this year for Christmas, I could just go back and relive one of the 79 Christmases I have experienced in my life, instead of creating another one. Although most of them are lost to memory, a few of them are still there in my meandering thoughts...
Make customers safe
After spending the weekend with my mother in Motley, Sunday morning I said to myself “I need to get out of this town before it kills me”. Maskless employees. Barely-masked employees. Maskless customers.
I like to support local businesses in Staples and Motley. The grocery...
COVID rules not heeded
In the words of esteemed epidemiologist, Dr. Michael Osterholm, “The U.S. is about to enter COVID hell.” We have been fortunate in Minnesota to have delayed the widespread infections that other places in the world have experienced from the SARS-CoV-2, but the time has come...
When I visited Disney World’s Epcot Center 25 years ago, they made a big deal about predicting what the future would be like. Many of their “futuristic” ideas revolved around remote communication, such as grandparents who could talk on screens to their families who live hundreds of miles away....
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