Opinion
Off the Publisher’s Desk 8-27-2025
Doesn’t anyone stay home! I have talked about my involvement with the Newspaper Museum at the Minnesota State Fair and this year is no different than previous years that I drove to the fairgrounds in St. Paul Thursday opening day. Up at four a.m. and onto Interstate-94 at Wilson to travel to the fairgrounds. I…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 8-13-25
Are prices coming down? It has only been six months since Donald Trump took over the leadership of this country. And as an average person, have you seen a price drop at the local stores? I know gasoline is down thirty-cents or more a gallon locally. I cannot say if the price of groceries at…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 7-30-25
This week’s column is a re-print that appeared in the July 25, 2018 issue and it is just as newsworthy now as it was seven years ago. Thanks to Larry Nielsen for bring it to my attention. Talking to your foe is OK! President Trump last week had a sit down visit with Russian President…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 7-23-25
Trump for a third term ??? Every since the Presidential election of last November there has been talk of Donald Trump running for a third term. I just brushed that off as a bunch of hopeful talk. But, last week as I was attending the St. Croix County Fair here in Glenwood City I came…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 7-16-25
Is there any good news on the political front? I spent the weekend trying to think of what good news I could report on, on the national front this week. I could talk about the things that President Trump has accomplished in his first six months in office or all the people that have rushed…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 7-9-25
Is it a big beautiful bill? Last week the Congress passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” with only Republicans voting for it. I have reservations about the bill, just because it might raise the national debt, and that is against my feeling of not unloading our debt onto our grandchildren. President Trump made a comment…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 7-2-25
Foreign-backed third party litigation! I know nothing about litigation or that of a third-party litigation. Looking it up in the dictionary it states: “take a dispute or claim to court.” My attention was caught by a press release that came across my desk last Friday where the headline stated: “Foreign-Funded Lawsuits Threaten National Security,” and…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 6-25-25
More States? Have you ever though about the number of states in the Union that all have representatives in Congress. That is except for the District of Columbia, or Washington D.C., the Capital of the United States and covers about 63 square miles of land. But, the Constitution defines it as being outside of any…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 6-18-25
Trump did the right thing! President Donald Trump did the right thing for the country and especially for Los Angeles to bring law and order to the streets of this country’s second largest city with 3.8 million citizens. I will call it a riot because when law enforcement people get fireworks, rocks, concrete and “Molotov…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 6-11-25
We bonded our great-grandchildren! Our great nation is in debt so far that our descendants are now left on the hook for the debt that the United States of America has accumulated. I don’t know if Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will add to that debt, but the people we have elected to Congress, neither Republican…
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