Opinion
Arts community devastated by COVID-19 pandemic
From Five Wings Arts Council newsletter
By Mark Turner
Executive Director
I am reaching out to share some news on the current programs and services of the Five Wings Arts Council. We can call it a “Situational COVID-19 Update,” if you will.
What we...
Baseball appreciation
I would like to take the opportunity to convey my deepest regards to the Staples Motley Diamond Club for naming their recent 13U Babe Ruth Tournament after myself and my late wife, Carolyn. I was moved and humbled by their kind gesture. It meant a great deal to me that they...
Kresha advocates to end emergency powers
Minnesota House Republicans voted to bring up a motion ending Governor Walz’s peacetime emergency powers recently. Representative Ron Kresha released the following statement regarding the vote.
“House Democrats voted to leave the peacetime emergency in...
Freedom
isn’t Free
A bit of American history:
1770s...Revolutionary War - Protest of American Patriots for their freedom
1850s...Civil War - For the rights and freedoms of slaves
1920s... Women received the right to vote after years of protests
1940s WWII - Fight for lives and liberties of Jews...
National COVID-19 happenings affect local
Tim Rice, President & CEO
Lakewood Health System
Staples, MN
Our past editorials have been focused on COVID-19 in our area, but this week we need to talk about what is happening across the country as it is directly impacting us.
Fortunately, until...
Educating our children
By Governor Tim Walz
As a classroom teacher for more than 20 years, I know firsthand how resilient, strong, and flexible our students and educators are. There’s nobody better suited for a challenge. But COVID-19 has posed unprecedented questions about the balance of public...
The breakdown of civilization
Our cities and country are at an existential tipping point. Any right thinking American knows what happened to George Floyd was horrible and are in support of peaceful protests, but people are nauseated by what BLM and Antifa are doing to our country.
It’s no less...
The case for local control
Small town diet
By Mark Anderson
Editor
Minnesotans are required to wear masks indoors now. It doesn’t mke sense to a lot of people in this part of the state because only two new cases were detected in Todd County this week, one in Wadena County and two in Morrison....
Face mask facts
This is in response to Gary Schimpp’s recent letter to the editor.
Fact 1: The U.S. has 25 percent of the world’s Covid-19 cases but only four percent of the world’s population
Fact 2: Since a lot of Covid19 patients are symptom free and the incubation period is lengthy (up to two...
Shift will drive rural hospital consolidations
By Kelly Asche
and Marnie Werner,
Center For Rural Policy and Development
For years, the big conversation around healthcare has been how to control the upward spiral of healthcare costs. But within that larger discussion, another one concerning...
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