Opinion

  • Opinion: The Shining Wire

    Opinion: The Shining Wire

    For a snare to work, an animal’s gut instinct must drive it to kill itself. Struggling against the snare is precisely what strangles it.


  • Editorial cartoons: Graduation, Six-Seven

    Editorial cartoons: Graduation, Six-Seven

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


  • Opinion: Accomplishments

    Opinion: Accomplishments

    I am pondering how the current president can believe he has more accomplishments than any other president during the first 17 months of his second term. This is a claim made by the president, and, as a well-known fabricator of facts, we need to understand that most of what he…


  • Let’s celebrate mental health awareness

    Let’s celebrate mental health awareness

    I love the billboard that says, “Do you have a brain? Then you have mental health!”


  • Reflection: No Recipe Needed

    Reflection: No Recipe Needed

    I’ve made copious amounts of chocolate chip cookies during my lifetime.


  • Memorial Day brings up sorrow and pride

    Memorial Day brings up sorrow and pride

    While waiting in line to check out in my latest excursion to Walmart I noticed the lady in front of me had a whole grocery cart filled with memorial bouquets and she looked as if she were much younger than I am.


  • Head start is a stunning success. Don’t cut it.

    Head start is a stunning success. Don’t cut it.

    The federal Head Start program has been a lifesaver for me since I was a toddler. I count my lucky stars that my parents were able to get me into Head Start for early childhood education decades ago. I count myself even more fortunate to have it for my own…


  • A local rebellion against Trump’s border wall

    A local rebellion against Trump’s border wall

    Even in this ugly era of political divisiveness, some things remain bigger than partisan politics.



  • I was there when Earth Day started

    I was there when Earth Day started

    I participated in the very first Earth Day, although here in Devils Lake, back in April of 1970 we didn’t call it that, we ddi a “Walk for Development” that year.


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