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Fuel tax holiday?

Local Editorials

With gasoline prices at the pump rising like a SpaceX celebrity rocket launch, governors and state lawmakers around the country are looking for ways to ease the impact for their citizens. One idea being pushed is to call a holiday on state or even federal gasoline taxes. These are the per-gallon taxes collected at the pump with every gasoline purchase. The money collected usually goes into the state or federal transportation fund to build or maintain roads and bridges. Governors from several states, including Minnesota, are writing to congress members asking them to support a gas tax ...

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Free Kids’ Clothing Swap’ To the Editor: The Christian Church of Fairmont and Bethel Free Evangelical Church are hosting their first ever ‘Kid’s Clothing Swap’ from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on March 26, at the Christian Church located on 625 Johnson St. in Fairmont. We are inviting everyone in the community to come on out on that Saturday to participate in getting some slightly used clothes to get ready for spring and summer. We are encouraging you to go through your kids closets and find any clothes that are no longer season appropriate or are too small for them and bring them to ...

Our gas price pain nothing like Ukraine’s

Local Editorials

Residents and business owners in southern Minnesota are feeling the pain of high gas prices. The prices are set by a number of factors, from who the individual station buys it from, how much they pay, demand and how competitive the local market is. It also depends on supply, and right now the international supply is being disrupted by Russia’s war on Ukraine, and the world’s economic sanctions against Russia. On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced a ban on all Russian oil imports in response to Russia’s stepped-up assaults on civilians and non-military targets. While ...

List shaping up in First District

Local Editorials

There is a week left in the filing period for candidates to run in the special election to replace the Rep. Jim Hagedorn. So far, the list of candidates is leaning far to the right. Four Republicans have filed to run to fill out the rest of Hagedorn’s term. The one DFLer is Richard W. Painter, a University of Minnesota law professor who converted to the Democratic Party a few years ago after serving as the chief White House ethics lawyer in the Bush Administration from 2005 to 2007. He unsuccessfully challenged Sen. Tina Smith in the 2018 DFL U.S. Senate primary. We suppose it is ...

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Letters to the Editor

Addressing YMCA misinformation To the Editor: We continue to be amazed by the amount of misinformation about the YMCA that continues to be published in this papers’ Letter to the Editor section. We agree 100 percent that people are entitled to their opinions but it truly saddens/disappoints us that even after the building of this facility has been passed by vote, people continue to try and reverse the situation. After reading Mr. Bradley’s letter, we felt compelled as well to write a note to the editor. Several social media posts provided interesting and more positive ...

Putin blames the wrong people

Local Editorials

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Saturday that the Ukrainian state was in jeopardy, and he knew just who to blame — the Ukrainians themselves, or at least the democratically elected Ukrainian leaders who have pushed poor Vlad into sending his troops into their country, and refuse to accept their presence by defending their country. Putin has been spreading lies and manufacturing offenses to give him an excuse to invade Ukraine. Now that the Ukrainian resistance is slowing him down while the world unites against him, Putin continues his lies by blaming his victims. Meanwhile, ...