Opinion

Being a witness to suffering is suffering itself.

Hello All! My name is Fr. Skjervheim, and I’m the new Parochial Vicar at St. Joseph’s Church.

The recent, record-breaking outbreak of Cyclospora infections linked to lettuce consumption has left Americans wondering what food is safe to eat.

(July 29, 2026) – A reasonable dialogue about the startling proliferation of huge data centers in North Dakota (and elsewhere) has been effectively nullified by special interests that don’t want elected officials, regulators or members of the public scrutinizing their multi-million-dollar installations. They have skillfully managed and manipulated the debate…

Joe Heller is a Wisconsin-based editorial cartoonist who distributes his cartoons to over 300 newspapers through Heller Syndication.

A corner seems to be where two lines meet.

John Darkow has been a professional cartoonist for over 20 years, spending the last 10 as the staff cartoonist at the Columbia Daily Tribune. He is syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons.

(July 2, 2026) – As the song goes, “There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight.”

When the Pentagon cut roughly 180 faiths from its religious affiliation codes, shrinking the list from more than 200 categories to 31 in May 2026, it folded “Native American religion” into the broader category of “other religion” – one of many faiths the change pushes out of the military’s view.

Two instances do not a trend make, but two efforts to remove public notices from newspapers this year are concerning.