opinion

You see it in stores across our country and around the world: colorful and stylish clothing with happy-sounding brand names such as Children’s Place, Papaya, Joe Fresh, and Mango. But...

After six months of mulling over November’s election results, many Republicans remain convinced that the party’s only path to future victory is to improve the GOP’s appeal to Hispanic voters...

Put on your tinfoil hats everybody. Or didn’t you get the memo? Its paranoia time in America again. Maybe it’s the spring that brings out the crazy in our legislators...

Many Americans, including some of Barack Obama’s critics, take his word that his administration opposes torture. With fanfare, two days after occupying the Oval Office, he issued Executive Order 13491,...

Aging baby boomers may remember a 1960s rock band that sported an all-time great name. That band — Question Mark and the Mysterians — may now have a worthy rival...

Wow, what a concert on Sunday afternoon by the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra, choirs and soloists. Brahms Requiem, a dynamic piece to start off with, and the combined efforts of the...

President Obama’s new "religious tolerance" consultant to the Pentagon, Mikey Weinstein, wants Christian military service members who openly talk about their faith in uniform to be charged with treason, which...

When things are especially harrowing, we hope that our leaders can take us to the truth. If we are unlucky, they will instead feed us paranoia and lies. Only in...

It may not be well known, but the Headwaters Basketmakers Guild held its 18th annual workshop at Concordia Language Villages April 19-21. This is the second year I have attended,...

Chris Asendorf is right, I don’t have any study data to back up the claims that I made regarding the problems caused by our welfare system (Letters, April 3 and...

A group of rich Republicans is raising money to support same-sex marriage. By doing so, they reveal a fundamental split in conservative ranks between two very different philosophies. On one...

Atypical fishing opener is still an opener OK, maybe it isn’t the Opening Day of fishing we envisioned, what with the cool temps and late ice outs on many area...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s Legislature is tough to comprehend. Just ask some freshmen Democratic senators who the other day became confused as green "yes" and red "no" vote lights began...

Ms. Upgren was so very right on one point (Letters, April 13). Children need truth through their formative years. The truth of family is they are the people who love...

I just read Jan Lueken’s letter to the editor (April 24). It was so well written and 100 percent true. It saddens me to see how our nation is falling...