“Did you see the picture on Facebook of Aunt Mary?” I asked my dad during our Sunday phone call. “It was her 97th birthday last month.”
As a classroom teacher for more than 20 years, I know firsthand how resilient, strong, and flexible our students and educators are. There’s no…
Local news is the heartbeat of journalism. The fingers on the pulse of its community. In the face of a global pandemic that fell on top of cha…
I am not sure if this is due to COVID keeping the kids home, or just the advancing age of the neighborhood kids, but a gang has sprung up in o…
Love, kind, teaching, challenging, family, saints, fulfilling, amazing, heartwarming, and an adventure are all wording foster parents use to d…
Jim Tyssen and I met in 1965, the year of my high school graduation. He was teaching guitar lessons at Beddow’s Music in Virginia, and I had a…
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In the recent discussions about changes to police practices, there have been suggestions to abolish a judicial doctrine known as “qualified im…
“Did you see the picture on Facebook of Aunt Mary?” I asked my dad during our Sunday phone call. “It was her 97th birthday last month.”
Daughter No. 2 is just about ready to spread her wings and learn to fly.
One particularly poor excuse for a newspaper on the East Coast goes by the slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
My younger dog Max and I raced down the street on our nightly walk the other day. I feel a strong pull on the double leash from our older dog …
In six days, the Minnesota Twins will finally take the field for the 2020 season.
Each year we have lunch, Jann Kulaszewicz from Alaska, Jane Rogers from Missouri, Betty Lou Enquist from Biwabik and I.
I feel I must speak up regarding the recommendation of the IRRRB which recently decided not to fund a grant application to the Fond du Lac Res…
With fishing opener being an “unofficial holiday” to most Minnesotan’s, it can be hard to keep these people from traveling to their favorite f…
Since I was responsible for the administration of the taconite production tax for 30 years with the Minnesota Department of Revenue, I still h…
The Eveleth-Gilbert School Board should immediately act to postpone the elections until this virus threat is diminished. There is no good reas…
On May 14, 2019 history was made by the voters in the Virginia and Eveleth/Gilbert school districts. That is the day they approved by a health…
Last May the public voted for collaboration between the Eveleth-Gilbert and Virginia school districts and build three new schools for $181 mil…
As the longest tenured commissioner on the St. Louis County Board of Commissioners and having been sworn in as a St. Louis County Commissioner…
