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Question: Thank you for your articles! I see a lot of pick-up trucks that have dogs walking loose and riding in the box. Isn’t that against the law? Please write...

Last month I suggested that you could find all April’s minima of Algol at www. nightskyinfo.com/sky _highlights/ algol/ – "a site giving the minima in 24-hour mode, where 1911 =...

Blueberries are becoming an increasingly popular fruit to grow in our Northern Minnesota region. Their health benefits are well known, being rich in antioxidants as well as providing 300 percent...

A lot of my life exists in the digital world. My pictures are on Facebook and flickr and many other cloud services. My communication happens mainly via email or some...

If you could visit just one place in Sweden, where would you go? I’d suggest Skansen, an open-air museum that covers 75 acres. Two million people a year visit Stockholm’s...

Question: How do troopers, deputies and city police like the new style of intersections where drivers can’t go straight across another roadway, but instead have to take a right and...

It will be 73 years ago this July that the worst tragedy involving Minnesota Game Wardens or Conservation Officers occurred. It happened in my hometown of Waterville, Minn. I was...

With the flurry of seed and plant catalogs we get every winter comes the nagging question every gardener has: I wonder if that plant will make it here? Many catalogs...

Question: I don’t know if you ever wrote about this, but could you do an article talking about change of address on the driver’s license? As an officer, I come...

Much has been written about the men of Scandinavia who came to toil in the New World. But what about the women? The record leaves no doubt that they were...

Would you like your computer to be super fast? Google is about to come out with a higher speed version that is one hundred times faster than the Google version...

Northwoods Caregivers are proud to recognize National Volunteer Week 2013, “Celebrate Service.” Sponsored by the Points of Light Institute and HandsOn Network – the nation’s largest volunteer network –National Volunteer...

“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em ‘Certainly I can.’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt My father...

“The New Yorker,” launched in February 1925, is now read nation-wide. My folks subscribed; I became aware of it in the late ‘30s. I first looked only at the cartoons,...

My next car is going to be bright yellow. I’ll be able to spot it in the parking lot at the grocery store and according to a Dutch study (there’s...