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Priorities are Important! If you have been following the articles in this paper about Kandiyohi County partnering with Consolidated Telephone Company of Brainerd to expand internet services in the northern part of the county, you know that $500,000 of the $10 million cost of the...

An Aug. 12 West Central Tribune article about a recent legislative candidate forum at the Kandiyohi County Fair stated, "(Rep. Dave) Baker said he considers 'what's best for Kandiyohi County' before he pushes the red or green button." Baker has voted with his House Republican Caucus...

The quick reply on Sept. 9 to my letter appearing on Sept. 8 regarding the birthday of Social Security may have caused the writer to confuse Social Security with an investment. Social Security's purpose has been to assure American citizens that they will not live out their retirement...

On Nov. 8 we go to the polls to select local representation to the Minnesota House of Representatives District 17B. The incumbent Rep. Dave Baker is running against former Rep. Mary Sawatzky. Both candidates are popular among their respective parties, but who is best suited to meet...

Anyone who supports Trump must be on something, or coming off something, and whatever it is, it must be some powerful stuff. Trump is no voice of certainty. He can't even run a casino, let alone balance this country's economy. Trump has used slave labor from several other countries...

If it had been Joe Citizen with a weapon instead of an off-duty police officer who shot and killed the slasher in St Cloud, would anti-gun Gov. Dayton, anti-gun President Obama, anti-gun liberals and the anti-gun news media have called him a hero? I believe not. Because the mall...

Baker represents — and gets results — for Kandiyohi County Mary Sawatzky's supporters must be desperate. They're writing misleading letters to the editor saying Dave Baker doesn't represent us. Let's get one thing straight: Dave Baker has been the most effective representative...

Stop the presses. New flash: Trump concludes that President Obama really was born in the U.S., big news. Did he ever believe the right-wing racist hoax that Obama was born in Kenya, which was so popular with those who could not believe that Americans had twice elected a black man...

Kathleen Parker spends her whole op-ed column on Sept. 20 trying to defame Trump for not serving in the military when neither her candidate (Hillary), nor her daughter, nor her promoted President Obama ever served in the military. Are the requirements different for women or Democrats?...

I see that the pedestrian bridge over the railroad needs repair. I've always admired it. In fact, I now consider it a landmark in Willmar. Although I live several blocks away from it, I do use the bridge from time to time. I have noticed chunks of concrete missing from the platform....

They want to go back. The parties that brought this country its worst depression ever and almost ruined this state want to bring back the ideas that caused it. Tim Miller, Dave Baker and Andrew Lang say we don't need roads or bridges repaired. Bankrupt the schools and small towns—they...

I once saw a bumper sticker that read: "Friends don't let friends vote Republican." I chuckled and often used that line, in a good-natured way, to remind friends that I was only concerned for their well-being. Over the past decade and a half I've continued to remind these people,...