What is the difference between local levels of government and more distant levels — state and federal? It seems the closer the unit of government comes to the people, the more they try to hold down taxes. We are just finishing the local government Truth in Taxation hearing time of year, ...

Milk Depot receives donation The South Central Minnesota Breastmilk Depot, located in the Martin County Human Services building, recently received its first donation. Any milk donated to the depot is sent to the Minnesota Milk Bank in the Twin Cities, where a lot of it is given to babies in ...

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 ...