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Responsibility is a term easily articulated but challenging to embody. As children of this planet, we utilize its resources, cultivate its land, and reshape its landscapes. In return, the Earth molds …
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9/27/24
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Is he a good clown? Is he a bad clown? It doesn’t really matter. Donald Trump belongs in a circus not in the White House. Jim Ganahl Cook
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9/26/24
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The slogan, ‘We are not looking back’ means discount the Harris record and not look at Harris’s southern border invasion, high cost of inflation, Afghan disastrous withdrawal, …
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9/26/24
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I had the good fortune of having Lorrie Janatopoulos as one of my first bosses. To date, she is still the best boss I’ve ever had. We need more public servants like Lorrie who lead with heart, …
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9/26/24
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Gov. Tim Walz said “violence has no place in America.” I hope that is his vision for the future but I doubt it. As of now violence IS America and his running mate promotes violence with …
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9/26/24
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Donald Trump, during the Sept. 10 debate, actually argued that “illegal” Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating dogs, cats, and other pets. First, since the Haitian …
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9/26/24
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In 2007, I designed and built a website that was then banned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The website was an April Fool’s gag called kittyporn4.me. It featured an escort …
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Catie Clark
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9/26/24
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With the season about to shift to autumn, my mind has been focused on the final steps to restore the exterior of my log house. A project I thought would take one summer is now rounding out the end of …
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Kathleen McQuillan
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9/26/24
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As the members of the recently constituted Lake Vermilion Pickleball Association have demonstrated, residents of Greenwood do know how to work together to accomplish good things for their community. …
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9/26/24
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Early voting begins in a few days and I requested my mail-in ballot to fulfill an important civic duty. If you are like me, you fill out your General Election ballot and then turn it over and …
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9/20/24
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On Fridays you may see us by the side of the highway campaigning for Vice-president Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. There’s a lot of enthusiasm for the Harris/Walz team out there, which is …
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9/20/24
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Lorrie Janatopoulos has worked to make the Iron Range a great place to live, work, and raise a family for decades. I have spent over twenty years on the Iron Range as a teacher and several years as …
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9/20/24
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Many presidential voters base their votes on the issues that candidates say they can solve, such as inflation, immigration, abortion, etc. Voters rarely consider candidates from the point …
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9/20/24
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I am a believer in having as little governmental interference in our lives as possible while still maintaining a civil and functioning society. Governor Walz’s credo: “Mind your own …
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9/19/24
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In regards to the proposed sale of Minnesota state school trust lands within the BWCA, the 1964 Wilderness Act states: “STATE AND PRIVATE LANDS WITHIN WILDERNESS AREAS SECTION 5. (a) In any …
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9/19/24
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Am I a Christian? Do I follow the Ten Commandments? Do I love my God but have strange Gods before me? Do I put power, money, possessions, status, and ego before God? Am I willing to kill, harm, or …
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9/19/24
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Well, the long-awaited debate is over. The first question was about the economy. Kamala talked about her tax plan for first-time business owners who want to start a business, a tax break for families …
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9/19/24
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I’m a retired educator, having spent 35 years teaching in the Minnesota State College system. So, I’m a bit of an education geek when it comes to evaluating political …
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9/19/24
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One of the biggest economic concerns in the current presidential campaign centers on Donald Trump’s promise to launch a major trade war with virtually every U.S. trading partner, including our …
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Marshall Helmberger
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9/19/24
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Donald Trump was absolutely right about one thing during last week’s debate with Kamala Harris. The former president repeatedly called the United States a failing nation, and his very candidacy …
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9/19/24
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I got a good laugh with last week’s letter about “strength through joy being a danger to democracy.”. Clearly the writer has never rea the Republican playbook called Project 2025, …
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9/12/24
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“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands…” Most Americans have declared this, from an early age – often …
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9/12/24
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This is one of the reasons I try to stay off Facebook. When you pop on you have really no control over the first post you see. Well, one day I pop on and the first post I see is a …
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9/12/24
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Immigrants. They came for freedom. They founded our freedom in 1787. They are still coming today to escape violent conditions and find a better world for their families. They are taking lower-paying …
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9/11/24
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Project 2025 is a 900-page document spelling out a functional takeover of the American government. There is nothing remotely “conservative” about it. Conservative means to retain what is …
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9/11/24
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