Last week at the Gazette we got a press release from the Census Bureau headlined, “120 million households to receive 2010 census questionnaire.”
The first question that popped into my mind was, “So how did they know how many questionnaires to send out?”
While any time is the right time to give to the food shelf, giving in March is especially important for one very good reason.
Each dollar given this month can be stretched, so organizers of the food shelf can get more food for each donated dollar.
Having witnessed the major flooding of the Minnesota River back in 1997 (and along with that, filling a bunch of sandbags to save the town of Montevideo), I know how scary a situation like that keeps everyone holding their breath.
This year looks to be another doozy. One advantage for Redwood Falls is most of its residents and businesses are located quite a distance from the river. Old North Redwood, located just yards from the river, doesn’t have that luxury.
Does the world really need Daylight Savings Time any more?
What does "hench" mean, and what does a man have to do to later be described as a "henchman?"
You can keep your expensive sports cars and stereos. I’ve got a toy these days that’s got them all beat: my composter.
I love my composter. My wife is big into gardening, so we finally got a composter a couple years ago. Now in our back yard we have a big black bin shaped sort of like R2-D2.
It’s been many, many years since I first got behind the wheel. I remember the anticipation of waiting to be called to begin driver’s training instruction. I’m sure all of us were looking forward to it.
I was only a hair over five-foot tall and could barely see over the steering wheel.
My small town, for a lapse of many years, finally got a Boy Scout troop going again, and I was tickled. It didn’t last long. The teacher who decided to head it up quit just as I earned my Tenderfoot Badge, which I never did receive. I didn’t get much more out of Scouts than learning how to tie some knots and maybe one camping trip.
Well, actually I did. It taught me about how to become a productive citizen and leader with a moral foundation, and to live by the scout motto: “Be prepared.”
For some reason, when I was learning typing in high school, 60 words per minute seemed to be the Holy Grail, the goal everyone should aspire to.
A couple months ago I figured out a great way to double my typing speed. All I have to do, I discovered, is type half as fast.
I was in the Redwood County Government Center the other day, and just to make sure nobody forgets about the census, there, free for the taking were these cloth census bags containing a plastic coffee cup, water bottle and refrigerator magnet.
If we got these bags here, I’d guess every courthouse in the nation and other places are also handing them out. How much needless spending has this cost taxpayers?
It seems this waitress was working in a truck stop....
Subsidies and incentives ought to be the long-term solution, but until we can make them more cost effective they are the best thing we have.
After spending the day Sunday in bed with some form of stomach bug, I was completely oblivious to what was going on outside. I had heard it was going to snow and blow, but I had no idea.
Had I known the road was closed, I would not have even thought twice about leaving the Krause home, especially after the way this year has gone.
The MPCA continues to do the wrong thing for the State of Minnesota, especially the rural parts of the state.
Legislators need to put the MPCA leadership in its place, and perhaps the best option is to dissolve the MPCA and make a fresh start with a more practical agency.
There’s been a lot of talk about whether or not a pro-life commercial featuring Florida’s star quarterback Tim Tebow should be allowed to air during the Super Bowl. I have no problem with this commercial running during the Super Bowl or anytime, there are other embarrassing commercials we see on TV every day that offend me more.
In my hard-hitting expose in this week's Gazette about my trip to the Twin Cities , I didn’t mention the most interesting part: getting totally, flabbergastingly lost.
We are in a fight now to save America, and winning this fight is more important than political correctness or trying to forecast the weather a hundred years from now. We are in a fight to save America that has given so many of us lives we could not have imagined. We simply cannot lose.
Is there such a thing as an unnoticeable limp?
What are your dreams? What are your strengths? If you’re lucky they overlap, but sometimes you have to choose one over the other.
