opinion

There is no perfect response to any attack on any school or college campus, but some law enforcement officials are now changing their recommendations. Our world has changed as school...

Guns don’t kill people. People with guns do kill people, and themselves. People can kill people with knives, baseball bats, or frying pans. However, guns are much more effective at...

First of all I’d like to congratulate Audrey Nelsen on her election to the Willmar City Council. I know she will work hard for the community and ask all the...

Our rational thought is gone Though I had given up much hope for rational thought in America, the letter equating the tragic murders of 20 first-graders and six of their...

By EJ Dionne WASHINGTON — President Obama is a freer man than he has been at any point in his presidency. He is free from the need to save an...

By Froma Harrop MEDFORD, Ore. — “Obama says he’s going to make middle-class jobs,” the breakfast room troubadour bellowed at the Holiday Inn Express to those who wanted to listen...

Willmar’s Ward 4 goes to the polls Tuesday to select a new council member to fulfill the two-year unexpired term of Doug Reese on the City Council. The voters here...

The Kandiyohi County Area Family YMCA is nearly halfway to its $3 million capital campaign goal. That is a very good start. Some of the major contributors to this community...

The Willmar City Council took a positive step Monday in selecting an outside firm to study the city’s organizational structure. The council approved the hiring of Brimeyer-Fursman of Maplewood on...

I am so pleased that Audrey Nelsen is running for the Willmar City Council seat in Ward 4. I have known Audrey for over 30 years, and have had the...

A frequent letter-writer recently wrote 40 percent of guns sold at gun shows are unregistered. Those I know who regularly attend gun shows find the 40 percent number so far...

Imagine six former directors of the CIA talking with a distinguished filmmaker and confessing to the murder of two terrorism suspects, ordering the assassination of others, alleging a lack of...

America’s alleged “baby bust” is pushing the country over “a demographic cliff.” So argues Jonathan V. Last in The Wall Street Journal. Stacking one highly debatable claim on the next,...

West central Minnesota and Willmar are continuing the drive to gain four-lane access to the world via Minnesota Highway 23, a long-term quest that began in the later part of...