Tariff policy is usually described as an economic strategy to protect domestic products from the import of foreign goods that are produced at a lower cost. Critics warn...

Way back when, OPEC said, “The world runs on oil!” and tried to prove it. Crude prices spiked! The search for renewable energy got started.About 20 years ago, oil companies...

I am annoyed with how the pundits and reporters try to chase down the meaning of President Donald Trump’s words and tweets.Let me try to reach your mind through an analogy....

I grew up during the Cold War, and it left some interesting memories. In school, we were told: “In case of a nuclear bomb, hide under your desk and close your eyes to...

By Miranda S. Spivack,Guest ColumnistFederal data on rising hunger, on long-term trends in maternal and infant mortality, and information about preparing for disasters -...

Considering that this is probably one of the most important gatherings of the year to try and set policies for our country, my personal observations:Pinocchio seems to be...

As we reach the middle of tax filing season, families across Western Minnesota are doing something they have not been able to do in a long time: looking at their tax...

Most of us in Pelican Rapids don’t spend our evenings reading trade law. We’re trying to keep kids in shoes that fit, fix whatever just broke in...

We’d just left a meeting where 20 people sat around a table and discussed ways to help folks who were afraid to leave their homes. We were heading home through a snowstorm,...

Absolutely everything going on in Congress and with our President is, more or less, a smoke screen to hide the fact that more money is being spent than is being taken...

Who’s really paying for Minnesota’s fraud?As I’ve been watching the political theater and finger-pointing over fraud in Minnesota, I started...

The entire world—except our President—acknowledges there is a pollution issue. With a stroke of his mighty pen, he is trying to wipe out 40 years of progress toward...

Seven Republican legislators, from states other than Minnesota, decided enough was enough after the second brutal death by Trump’s goons of Minnesotans! Where are the...