Letter: Take care of your garbage

I think there are some people in today’s world that need to take a little better care of the earth. I’m talking about littering out of cars. It seems there is constantly trash in the ditches and the majority of it is from people throwing it out of their car window.

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Editorial: A decision on health care reform is needed

For more than a year, Republicans and Democrats have wrestled in the political arena over the health care reform.

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Letter: Gimse editorial was petty

What a petty and partisan editorial. The newspaper, displaying its usual liberal bias, wants to blame the problems in the bonding bill on Sen. Joe Gimse. I didn’t know that the fate ofhttp://legacy.wctrib.com/admin/index.cfm?page=articles/index# Minnesota, Kandiyohi County or Willmar rested solely on the shoulders of Gimse.

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• March 19 Letter: Juhnke explains bonding vote
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Commentary: Catholic wars where nuns are very right

The nuns are right. The bishops are wrong.

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Letter: The selling of judicial elections

In January the Supreme Court put our republic up for sale. It was done without fanfare in the case of Citizens United v. FEC. Five activist justices using two premises — that corporations are people with all constitutional rights and that money equals speech — ruled that the corporations could spend any amount of their profits to campaign in any and all elections. They may not contribute directly to a candidate but they may advertise and do everything to advance the agenda of their candidate.

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Cartoon by Bruce Plante

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Commentary: Betting (again) on a new fix for education in U.S.

WASHINGTON — Doubling down on dubious bets is characteristic of compulsive gamblers and federal education policy. The nation was essentially without such policy for grades K through 12, and better off for that, until 1965. In that year of liberals living exuberantly, they produced the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Now yet another president has announced yet another plan to fix education. His aspiration has a discouraging pedigree.

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Editorial: Be safe by the running waters of springtime

Once again, the rising river waters have spilled out of their banks in west central Minnesota and across Minnesota.

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Letter: Juhnke explains bonding vote

While I would argue it’s too early, it appears by a recent letter in this paper from a local Republican Party spokesperson that campaign season has already begun. I want to be clear — I voted against the final bonding bill because a critical project for our district was removed in negotiations with the governor. The Kandiyohi County veterans’ geriatric mental illness facility, a project many of us in the community have been working on for six years, was replaced with a similar project in Minneapolis the governor said he needed before he would sign the bill. My vote and my efforts on behalf of this facility demonstrate my commitment to representing the residents of our district and the veterans of this state.

• March 18 Letter: Frittering away tax dollars
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American Opinion: On collective-bargaining rights for federal baggage screeners

From The Associated Press

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Commentary: Immigration, the sequel has returned

SAN DIEGO — The immigration debate is back. And it’s hard to find anyone who is pleased to see it return.

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Cartoon by Michael Thompson

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Editorial: Pawlenty veto hurts, Gimse was of no help

Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s recent moves for political advantage — both statewide and for his presidential campaign — on the capital investment bonding bill hurt Willmar and Kandiyohi County.

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Letter: Frittering away tax dollars

So, Rep. Juhnke, if I understand this right, we only vote no on the bonding bill if it doesn’t include the pork that we want? What about all of the pork that the metro would get if we vote yes on the bonding bill, only because it includes our pork?

• March 19 Letter: Juhnke explains bonding vote
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Letter: Saving the lives of the unborn

CBS Television aired an excellent news broadcast on colon cancer and the actions needed to save lives. I am sure an equally in-depth broadcast on abortion would also save human life.

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