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WILLMAR -- The Willmar City Council's Finance Committee took no action this week on the question of whether or not the council should end the city's one-half percent local option...

Congratulations to Mickey Rooney for speaking up in America about the abuse of our elderly. We thank him. Now would be a good time for all of us to join...

GRANITE FALLS -- Construction will get under way this year on a new water treatment plant in Granite Falls. City Council members on Monday approved a base bid of $10,532,800...

WILLMAR -- Townships in Kandiyohi County will be getting a break, at least for one more year, on the annual fees they pay to the county assessor's office for services...

State and federal governments are broke. The left and the right have very different ideas on how to get government back on solid financial ground. Compromise seems unlikely going directly...

In my opinion, if we don't change the way we do business, America will soon be facing the same problems that our European and Arab neighbors are experiencing. Politicians constantly...

GRANITE FALLS -- Granite Falls City Council members called for a public hearing to consider an estimated $2.8 million in work to correct deficiencies in its sanitary and storm sewer...

I understand how elected local government leaders may feel the sky is falling.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama missed his Sputnik moment, "I'm a centrist." He reiterated failed government policies. The nation is hurting. Families' food, energy, and medical...

WASHINGTON -- Disregard Barack Obama's rhetorical cotton candy about aspiring to be transformative. He is just another practitioner of reactionary liberalism and champion of a government unchastened by its multiplying...

To all those who voted for Collin Peterson on Nov. 2: People deserve their government. Congressman Peterson just voted against the repeal of Obamacare. Shame on us. Tim Chermak Willmar