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Opinion

Law provides tools to help prevent opioid deaths

Local Editorials

Opioid addiction has devastated huge swaths of the United States in the last two decades. Overdose deaths have quadrupled since 1999, with about 70% of those overdoses attributed to opioids. Put more directly, almost 500,000 Americans died because of opioid drugs — street drugs and ...

Putin’s plans for Ukraine are failing

Local Editorials

We’re not sure how Vladimir Putin intended his invasion of Ukraine to go, or what plans he had for the country are, if the invasion is successful. But we doubt the current situation is what he had in mind. Putin no doubt expected the Russian military might would steamroll over the Ukrainian ...

Surplus still growing, but still chancy

Local Editorials

Minnesota’s latest state economic forecast shows the state’s whopper of a surplus is getting even more whopping — instead of $7.7 billion, it could be as much as $9.25 billion. But at this point the state budget forecast is, as the old saying goes, counting chickens before the eggs ...

Fighting for freedom

Local Editorials

Right now, the Ukrainian people are paying the high price for their freedom. Fathers and husbands are sending their loved ones to other European countries with an uncertain future. Men and women remain to fight the invading Russians. And fighting is what they are doing with much success so ...

Et. Cetera

Local Editorials

ADS expansion moves forward Advanced Drainage Systems has announced a significant expansion in the city of Fairmont. The $15 million project will include 14 acres of land and add 30,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space— not to mention 20 jobs over the next five years. We’d like to say thank ...

The world vs. Putin

Local Editorials

Russian President Vladimir Putin has invaded Ukraine, taking his country back toward the halcyon days of the old Soviet Union when Moscow controlled wide swaths of territory, from the Baltic Sea to the Chinese border, and countries like Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and East Germany looked to ...