This election season you may have noticed ‘pro-choice’ campaign ads that state not allowing abortions for rape and incest is too ‘extreme’. But what about the ‘extreme’ act of deciding we are going to take an innocent child, who’s father committed a horrible crime, and subject that child to torture until he or she dies.
Warning: This column, starting with the title, will require some German. Even if you’re just reading silently, feel free to mispronounce them in your head.
I am writing this article in light of the upcoming mid-term elections, locally, state wide, and national. These elections this year are probably are the most crucial elections we have had for some time. There is great divisiveness among political parties at this point and we have decided to disagree with anyone or any thing that the other party proposes.
Our local farmers are harvesting their crops including corn. Half the corn that is grown in the U.S. is used to make ethanol – making sure farmers have a market and we have a strong economy. Keeping ethanol strong is also important to our way of life and the security of our nation. Ethanol and it’s biproducts provide many jobs in our area.
Friends have asked why I haven’t written about my four-year-old daughter. Some know me as a doting dad and conjectured that I was too deeply in love to make fun of her.
“Gerry Patton’s passing, and Ted Suss’s move out of the county have been very sad and significant losses to Redwood County’s DFL unit,” said Karen Malmberg, Redwood County DFL Chair. “I signed on to be Gerry’s Vice Chair in 2019 to help him with the technology side of things. Then COVID slowed us down to a crawl. Now losing Gerry and Ted has brought us to a full stop. So it’s time to rebuild from the ground up.”
I learned to ride a bike on a hand-medown boy’s Schwinn. The vinyl banana seat was torn and the front tire was out of alignment, but I rode it all around Jasper until the spring of 1975, when I laid eyes on a blue five-speed Raleigh in the window of Frackman’s Hardware. It even had a front head lamp! I had a little money saved from working at my dad’s grocery store, so I struck a deal at the store: $30 dollars down and $5 a week until it was paid off.
Earlier this month, Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions (Summit) submitted its first route permit application to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for the Otter Tail and Wilkin Counties section of its proposed Midwest Carbon Express CO2 pipeline network in Minnesota. This leg of the project is 28.1 miles, a small fraction of the more than 212 miles of highly pressurized hazardous liquid CO2 pipeline proposed for Minnesota. Submitting a permit application to the PUC is one of many steps Summit needs to take before they can begin the construction of any CO2 pipelines in Minnesota. Summit’s proposed CO2 pipeline network will cut through Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Martin, Otter Tail, Redwood, Renville, Wilkin, and Yellow Medicine Counties.
To the Editor: Gov. Walz is proposing that he would like to reduce transportation greenhouse gases by 30% by 2025 and 80% by 2050.
Many may not know, but Minnesota's ethanol industry is the third largest in the United States and is responsible for purchasing and beginning the value-added processing of over half of the corn crop produced in the state. As the world continues to focus on ways to reduce emissions from all aspects of our economy and utilizing more renewable energy resources in the process, it is critical that Minnesota’s ethanol industry take the necessary steps to ensure that biofuels like ethanol remain a viable low-carbon solution and competitive in that marketplace in the years and decades to come.