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We have taken time to understand the issues facing District 4 of Kandiyohi County. We strongly support Roger Imdieke. Roger is well prepared for the work of commissioner. As owner of a successful retail business he understands the financial realities of budget limits and responsible...

Mitt Romney and his fellow Republicans have plans. Romney has said he will eliminate the tax on investments, interest and capital gains. A huge tax break for the rich -- a pittance for the working middle class (if they have any savings). Romney will create jobs. Where? Overseas? Romney...

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Seems to me the real issue in the politics of America anymore is simply this: Are we ready for America to become the counterpart of European socialism? We're seeing and reading daily the economic struggles of various countries in Europe. At the current debt load piling up in America,...

Every man has a father and Binyamin Netanyahu's is worth knowing. He is Benzion Netanyahu, born 101 years ago in what was soon to become Poland and living now in what has become Israel. He is a historian by profession, the author of a mammoth and well-respected book on the Spanish...

In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed an international conference at Evian-les-Bains, France, to deal with the urgent problem of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Representatives from 32 countries met for nine days, trying to come to grips with a humanitarian calamity....

Unlike Moses Herzog, the eponymous character of Saul Bellow's novel "Herzog," I do not feverishly compose mad letters to public figures and sinister government agencies (the IRS, for instance). But I often yell back at the TV set. This happened Sunday when Candy Crowley on CNN asked...

I had a teacher in college who used to ask, Who discovered America? He would offer some choices. They were Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus or the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. The answer he wanted was the three ships with which eventually someone would have discovered...

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When I was 11, my father thought it was time to show my sister and me the nation's capital. I have only vague memories of that trip -- the heat, the expanse of the White House's grounds, the Jefferson Memorial. I do remember we took Route 1 through Baltimore (no I-95 yet) and it was...

The District 1 Commissioner choice is incumbent Richard Falk or challenger Jim Butterfield, both of Willmar. This district includes the west side of Willmar. Butterfield is a sales manager and travels Minnesota and Iowa. He has negotiating talents and problem-solving abilities as...

Almost like an apparition, Jimmy Carter stalks Barack Obama. The former president has published yet another book, his 25th, which has been greeted with some scorn and plenty of ridicule. Garry Wills, in the reliably liberal New York Review of Books, writes that "Carter is a better...