Once again, Minnesota is the focus of the police vs. minorities struggle, when former Brooklyn Park police officer Kim Potter, a white woman, on trial for the shooting of Daunte Wright, a Black man. Potter shot Wright during a traffic stop after pulling her firearm instead of the Taser she says ...

Minnesota’s government officials must feel like the people who get a bank statement with a few more zeroes than they were expecting. They should be asking, “Is this a mistake? How did this happen?” On Tuesday the Minnesota Management and Budget office projected the state will have a ...

The International Olympics Committee (IOC) is tasked with picking the host countries for the games. We wonder how their decisions are made? Apparently, concern for human rights is not on their agenda. The upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing are a case in point. For years, the Chinese ...

Minnesota Twins baseball fans, especially those of a certain vintage, will take great joy and feel great vindication in the announcement on Sunday that two of the finest Twins to play the game, Tony Oliva and Jim Kaat, will enter the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown this summer. Oliva and ...

Well, that didn’t take long. It was only a week ago that health officials in South Africa reported a new variant of the COVID-19 virus, now known as the omicron variant. Other nations tried to set up travel bans to keep the virus in Africa, but it was already too late. Cases have been popping ...

Best Western makes home in Fairmont Fairmont’s Holiday Inn will officially transition to Best Western later this month. It’s great that TPI Hospitality is investing in the community and that those coming to Fairmont will have an updated place to stay. We’re excited to see the finished ...