editorial

The Rice Memorial Hospital Board faces a decision today on the next chief executive officer for the regional hospital located in Willmar. Fortunately, the board has two excellent finalists. Thus,...

Congress has once again passed up two opportunities to be prudent with taxpayers' funds, especially during this current recession. President Obama also skipped a chance to walk his campaign talk...

The joint dispatch collaboration between Kandiyohi and Big Stone counties is an innovative concept that has potential throughout Minnesota. Their respective county boards completed a formal agreement Tuesday under which...

The time has come for the Congress to strike a new path on earmarks. We urge President Obama to follow through now on his campaign promise to change the earmark...

Minnesota is facing the worst economic recession since World War II, one that far exceeds the recession of the early 1980s. The facts are what they are. The state budget...

Sign, sealed and delivered on Tuesday was Stimulus 2009. Now the challenge will be in the implementation. After President Obama signed the $787 billion recovery package into law Tuesday in...

Two hundred years this week, the babe Abraham Lincoln was born in a simple log cabin in the frontier state of Kentucky. Much has changed since that day. As a...

What is it that congressional lawmakers don't get on the economy? The economy is in the tank, but it is OK for members of Congress to take a raise. It...

The Kandiyohi County Family Services Department is working to tell its story to the County Board and the public. This is a good step on behalf of the department and...

A new University of Minnesota study of ethanol is raising concerns, especially about corn-based ethanol. The study's conclusion was that corn ethanol is no better than gas and has some...

The budget battle continues at the Minnesota Legislature as hearings started this week. Current estimates show a state budget deficit of about $5 billion. However, this budget deficit could grow...

On the dangerous cold: The Northland certainly didn't need another reminder during this winter of subzero stretches that "dangerous" in "dangerously cold" must be taken seriously. But news broke Sunday...

Americans saw history in the making Tuesday as Barack Obama took his oath of office. Inauguration Day 2009 is a day that each us will remember for generations to come...