Many people assume that deteriorating memory is a given as we get older. Is that our fate? Is there no hope? Not so fast! Psychologists have studied memory and aging ever since there were psychologists. What have they learned? First, what is the average typical decline in memory? The type ...
Regain control of the debt To the editor: The National debt zooms past $40 trillion on Aug. 19, 2026, as the government borrows to cover military spending, tax cuts and social programs. These are not investments in infrastructure or the future. These are frivolous expenditures on wars of choice, ballrooms, lawsuits, illegal tariffs and breaks for the rich and big corporations. It is all on our backs and our children’s mortgaged futures. The only way to regain control of the debt is to increase taxes and reduce expenditure. Why not match $1 of new tax with $1 reduced ...
“I.C.E.” is not Christian! To the editor: “I.C.E.” shouldn’t even be a subject that a person calling themselves “Christian” needs to be told to be against! After all, we know we are the “illegal aliens” to God and Heaven! Yet he continues to forgive us with Love and even sent his son to suffer the punishment we deserve! Yet, knowing all this, we still easily disregard and think we don’t have to show such compassion to others. We eagerly join in on the evil and even become defensive about supporting unchristian activities! We are to follow Christ’s ...
Two things can be true at once. Foreign entities have seeded the opposition to data center growth in the United States. China, in particular, through its control of TikTok and other influence outlets, has relentlessly worked to stop the American AI advantage against China. Also, at this point, ...
When I attended a much different public school in suburban Maryland, there was a public service announcement on TV that asked: "It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?" I was usually in bed at that hour on "school nights," but that question might be put a different way today: ...
Pickleball? Lakes? Council meeting highlights. To the editor: Councilman: “Due to the urgency of citizens to add pickleball courts.” Urgency? Last meeting, the woeful pickleballers lamented, “We’ve been waiting 15 years.” Now it is “urgent”? Pickleballers if you are “impoverished”, I’m sorry, please excuse me. If not, build your own, rent SMEC (Southern Minnesota Educational Campus), dual-purpose courts. Risk your own time, effort and money, not ours. Council, did you ask neighbors, friends and relatives? Fairmont, “The City of Lakes” or pickleball? What ...
