Opinion

  • Louise Is Spending Time With …

    Louise Is Spending Time With …

    Remember Feb. 12, 2026 when I started my book review column, “Louise Spending Time With …..” and reviewed C.J. Box’s Battle Mountain?


  • Opinion: The Chicken or the Egg?

    Opinion: The Chicken or the Egg?

    I collect eggs from my chicken coop everyday.


  • Opinion: Lying

    Opinion: Lying

    It has been fascinating to watch the news media becoming more responsive to the habitual lying of the current president. During the first several months of the first term of the current president, the news media, attempting to be fair, tried not to call out readily apparent misstatements and lies.…


  • Letter to the Editor: Beware the Rainmaker

    Letter to the Editor: Beware the Rainmaker

    In a song entitled “Rainmaker,” Bruce Springsteen sings about the reality and consequences of desperation. When “parched crops are dying ‘neath the dead sun” and when “we’ve been praying but no good comes,” a rainmaker “comes crawlin’ ‘cross the dry fields like a dark shroud.” A rainmaker who promises to…


  • Letter to the Editor: Real Estate Fraud or Real Estate Smart Business!

    My name is Daniel, but my friends call me Da-Kernel! In a short while I will be 80 years old so I have decided to terminate my lifestyle as a couch potato and become one with my peeps (or my family) I decided to buy a fixer upper and help…


  • Church Page Reflection: Tune My Heart

    Church Page Reflection: Tune My Heart

    My church sang out of tune on Easter.


  • Reflection: My Pink Rose Story

    Reflection: My Pink Rose Story

    I spent quite a bit of time living with young women, part of a Charismatic Christian Community in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN, while I was going to classes at the College of St. Catherine, a Catholic women’s college.


  • Opinion: A Tax on Billionaires? Oh, The Horror!

    Opinion: A Tax on Billionaires? Oh, The Horror!

    We Americans are barraged these days with multiple crises, so I hate to add anything else to our list of worries.


  • Editorial Cartoon: Winnable War in the Middle East

    Editorial Cartoon: Winnable War in the Middle East

    By Joe Heller, Editorial Cartoonist



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