Opinion
Off the Publisher’s Desk 6-4-25
Say something good about a Democrat! Memorial Day has passed for another year, but while I was attending the Memorial Day function at the Emerald Cemetery, Arlo Hansen approached me and commented that he has received the Tribune Press Reporter for more than fifty years. I would like to thank Arlo, who lives in Anoka,…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 5-28-25
If your eighty plus you can relate to Biden’s problems! If you are as old as former president Joe Biden you can relate from personal experience his health problem and his mental decline. We all must have seen friends, relatives or neighbor suffer with some sort of brain dysfunction in the declining years of their…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 5-21-25
The President is right! President Trump is right in his decision to withhold funds from institutions like Harvard. Many people have long criticized institutions of higher learning as being a place where students get indoctrinated instead of educated. On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other groups seized 257 Israel and foreign hostages. Another 1195 were…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 5-14-25
All Aboard! With all the problems that have been plaguing the airlines recently including several crashes, air controller shortage, and computer failure, I might call on my congressman and ask him to inject more federal funds to update the needed equipment. Or I just might look to AmTrak for a lift. A railroad was plotted…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 5-7-25
It’s time to switch! It’s time to switch, that is from your snow blower to the lawn mower, and that is what I did Sunday afternoon. Got the lawn mower out of the storage shed and drove the snow blower into storage, just like many of you have done. I forgot how fast grass grows…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 4-30-25
Babies, more babies, please Making headlines recently is the declining birth rate, not only in the United States, but the whole world. Presidential advisor, Elon Musk warned; “The birth rate is very low in almost every country. And, so unless that changes, civilization will disappear.” According to information that I found, the birth rate recorded…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 4-23-25
We had a great Easter weekend! We had a family gathering on Saturday to celebrate Easter by driving to Portage where the family got together at the home of Alex and Kris DeWitt, not only for Easter but to celebrate the third birthday of my great granddaughter, Paula. When I arrived, I had a birthday…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 4-16-25
Keep burning coal! Xcel Energy in proposing to construct a large solar panel generating project in the middle of St. Croix County on some 5,000 acres of farmland. Electricity generated from that facility would be carried over a new transmission line to the site of the Allen S. King coal burning plant. They call it…
Read MoreOff the Publisher’s Desk 4-9-25
The little sign is no more! A week ago Monday as I was clearing the small amount of snow and ice from my front walk, I heard a grinding noise coming from down the street. As I turned and looked to my west, there was a St. Croix County Highway Department truck with a couple…
Read MoreOff the Editor’s Desk – 4-2-2025
They have no plan, only scare us! I should not have been surprised last week by our friendly Democratic leaders that were out on the campaign trail with more scare tactics and with no substance or a plan to lead the United States into the future. Senator Bernie Sanders I-VT and Congresswoman Alexander Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)…
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