Opinion
Off The Editor’s Desk – 9-18-2019
Everything Changes! How much has changed in your lifetime? As I look back at our local communities many things have changed, and not all for the better. Over the last 30 or 40 years our communities have lost many small businesses and stores, where at one time we could purchase all the items that we…
Read MoreLTE – Timothy Vettrus – 9-18-2019
Readers, Thank you to many of you have signed the simple petition to ask the Bremer Foundation to hold a public hearing concerning their proposed closing of the Bremer Bank at 301 Bremer Avenue in Colfax in early November. These petitions are still available to sign at Kyle’s Grocery, Arvold Chiropractic, Express Mart, Synergy C-Store…
Read MoreLTE – Dick Hilson – 9-11-2019
Dear Editor: The “New” Bremer Bank Organization Mr. Timothy Vettrus, I and others applaud you for your heartfelt letters of concern. The days of “Social Banking” as we know it here in Colfax, will soon come to an end. Bremer Bank will close and lock the doors and will pull stakes; Their big thaw has…
Read MoreLTE – Jason Good – 9-10-2019
Letter to the Editor: Drug addiction and abuse is now being considered the largest man-made health crisis ever in recorded history. Since the late 1990’s, the drug crisis has surged forward, leaving epic devastation in its wake. Now, more than ever, it’s important that literally everyone out there knows how to spot the signs and…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 9-11-2019
Do you remember where you were 18 years ago? Eighteen years ago, today, (September 11, 2001) changed the way we live in America. It was the terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people and thrust the United States into a global war against groups that are hell bent on seeing the death of the United…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 9-4-2019
Another Year at the Newspaper Museum! After more than twenty-years with the Minnesota Newspaper Foundation’s Newspaper Museum at the Minnesota State Fair, I have told the powers that be that I would be slowing down my participation at the museum, following this year’s fair, which ended on Monday. Don’t get me wrong, everything is fine,…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 8-29-2019
What should we teach our young generation? What should we teach our young people? Should we guide them to work hard and be successful and take care of themselves and theirs, or should they be lead into being a dependent, dependent on the government for their very existences? We need to teach the younger generation…
Read MoreLTE – Timothy Vettrus – 8-28-2019
Readers, As a long-time satisfied Colfax Bremer Bank member, I have had response from my previous letter to the Messenger calling for a petition to have a public hearing concerning the proposed closing of our own Bremer Bank on Bremer Avenue, no less. I have made up a simple petition with space for 90 names…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 8-21-2019
We must support our police! In wake of the shootings lately and the shooting of a half dozen police officers in Philadelphia, PA, shows the country’s lack of respect for the people that protect us. Last week in Minneapolis, the mayor was delivering a speech before the city council about his plan to increase the…
Read MoreLTE – Bruce Keyzer – 8-21-2019
Twice in ten days in late July, heavy storms caused extensive damage across Wisconsin. Thousands of trees were downed, crops and buildings were damaged, and nearly half a million residents were without power. How did the victims’ friends and neighbors react? They helped out. They worked together. Neighbors helping neighbors is nonpartisan. We hear the…
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