Opinion
Ask a trooper
Question: What is the requirement for displaying front and rear license plates in Minnesota? What is the fine for not displaying both? I notice a lot of vehicles without a front plate, especially on Corvettes and Tesla cars.
Pipelines before people or our prairies: The price of a false climate solution
Whether one believes in climate change or the risks that our current weather patterns have on our environment, one must understand the more imminent threat knocking on the door of our MniSota prairie homes. While we have always relied on our Indigenous knowledge in understanding and living in balance with the natural forces, basic science also indicates that greenhouse gasses from the extraction industry (oil and gas) cause shifts in weather patterns.
Democrats’ driver’s licenses for all proposal lacks critical safeguards
A proposal that’s been working its way through committees, and is soon to be on the Senate floor, is the Democrats’ driver’s licenses for all legislation. This bill already passed out of the House of Representatives, and Governor Walz has indicated that he will sign it into law.
Letters to the Editor
To the editor: News should not be used if it purposely degrades a person. Some of the main stream media tend to present what they want the listeners to hear and not the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
A Conversation with Cupid
A bustling two-story restaurant in a city center. On the mezzanine, ROB sees CUPID, 30s, black suit, white shirt, no tie, sitting at table overlooking the floor below.
To the editor:
Why are the taxpayers asked to vote on another new school referendum in April? The vote in the fall of 2022 for the building of a new elementary school and the demolition of the current Reede Gray school was defeated, showing that the taxpayers clearly wanted to repair the Reede Gray school building and not tear it down. What kind of thinking is driving the superintendent and the school board to do what taxpayers don’t want, and that is a new school building.
Letters to the Editor
Letter to editor: The Jan. 19, “What to know when a CO2 Pipeline comes to your community” article says, “Minnesotans should know and be able to decide if there are more effective ways to spend public money to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” But I ask; why even spend ‘ANY’ money ‘to reduce greenhouse gas emissions’? I’ve been writing editorials in opposition to “‘Man-made’ global warming” for over 15 years.
In Which Apologies to A.A. Milne are in Order
In Which Apologies to A.A. Milne are in Order Very recently, Mùchén, a low-level but good-hearted Chinese administrator of very little brain in the Ministry of National Defense was admitted through a red door to the office of The Minister.
Letters to the Editor
To the editor: Just in case anyone wonders why there is division in the political world and then it filters down to everyone's life, just look at St. Paul.