opinion

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...

I’ve never sought the spotlight. Though I’m coming out to the world, I intend to guard my privacy. I’m making this blanket statement in part to keep rumors and misunderstandings...

When should you give someone a mulligan? Should you give a former President a mulligan for a good chunk of his eight years in office? Should you give a young...

As I’ll be turning 88 in June, I’ve begun to lose hope for at last witnessing in my lifetime some legal accountability for the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney-Barack Obama-CIA-national security...

"Ultimately, the success of the nation depends on the character of its citizens." So said George W. Bush in his speech at the dedication of his presidential library in Texas...

Our regional transportation system has several needs, and it’s time to support transportation improvements in our community, especially those that will improve the lives of all of us here in...

Get this: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to ban the sale of cigarettes — now legal to people at age 18 — to people younger than 21. Yeah,...

Now that Congress has passed legislation that finesses the sequestration cutbacks on controllers, flights will be on time again, and air travel will once more be an effortless joy. Oh,...

In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, lawmakers are demanding answers from the FBI. They want answers not only about the Tsarnaev brothers — Did they act alone? Why...

Abraham Carpenter Jr., a farmer in Grady, Ark., has more insight into human nature than the average sociologist. "Anytime you are going to throw money up in the air," he...

Members of the Senate’s bipartisan Gang of Eight stress that under their new immigration plan, currently illegal immigrants will have to wait more than a decade before achieving citizenship. Newly...

Ebenezer Scrooge, the Dickens character, perfectly personified the nasty rich. For example, when asked to make a charitable donation for people trapped in poverty, Scrooge curled his lip in contempt...

My working theory — you could call it a philosophy, or a freestanding reason of how the world works — is what I call the Theory of Relative Laziness. It...

As a pastor for the past 25 years at Union Congregation Church United Church of Christ in Hackensack, I am proud to call myself a Minnesotan. This past fall I...