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Is this global warming? I sure like having gas to run my snowblower, and to run the plows that clear our roads, coal to make electricity and propane and wood to heat my house. At 15 below zero, how long will the battery in your electric car last? Marv Vaerst Bemidji

The Beltrami County Historical Society had a bonfire event after the Night We Light parade. This was a first-time event, and we were pleased at the number of persons who came to warm their fingers, drink hot apple cider or hot chocolate and tour the museum. A warm thank you to all...

Northwest Technical College has served northern Minnesota since 1967, preparing thousands of students for career opportunities and successful lives. NTC has served the region in a variety of disciplines and subject areas. Keeping pace with the needs of students and employers has...

On the day that Nelson Mandela was elected as South Africa’s first black president, I drove across the fault lines of segregated suburbia to watch his fellow citizens vote him into office. In the mixed-race “Malay Quarter” in central Cape Town — named for the residents descended...

As a person who has worked my entire adult life with people with disabilities — in group homes, day programs, 22 years as an adult foster care provider, and in my current position as a regional director for Lutheran Social Service, I know that the work of direct care staff is personally...

Clearly, it MUST have been a video produced by America's enemies, a vicious piece of propaganda that was so outlandish it would have brought laughs 10 years ago. No one except indoctrinated citizens of communist countries would ever believe it.

Trust ain't what it used to be in America. Back in 1972, when the folks conducting the General Social Survey first asked a sampling of Americans if they trusted their countrymen, about half said they did. Last year, when the same research outfit asked the same set of questions, only...

I’ve heard a lot of interesting stories of people trying, and failing, to sign up for Obamacare, but this one takes the cake. According to UPI, Shane Smith, of Fort Collins, Colo., had his new Obamacare insurance opened under his dog’s name. As it goes, Smith’s existing plan...

Sometimes you don’t have to say anything “new” to make news. Consider the “apostolic exhortation” the Vatican recently released. This statement from Pope Francis, observers note, didn’t really break new theological ground. But the Pope’s exhortation, his first since...

As a person who has worked my entire adult life with people with disabilities -- in group homes, day programs, 22 years as an adult foster care provider, and in my current position as a regional director for Lutheran Social Service, I know that the work of direct care staff is personally...

Clearly, it MUST have been a video produced by America's enemies, a vicious piece of propaganda that was so outlandish it would have brought laughs 10 years ago. No one except indoctrinated citizens of communist countries would ever believe it.

Trust ain't what it used to be in America. Back in 1972, when the folks conducting the General Social Survey first asked a sampling of Americans if they trusted their countrymen, about half said they did. Last year, when the same research outfit asked the same set of questions, only...

Jeff Bezos has seen the future of retail delivery, and it is the drone. When the storied CEO of Amazon told “60 Minutes” that he’s working on 30-minute delivery by tiny unmanned octocopter, it prompted an instant wave of disbelief and derision. One wag on Twitter joked that...

Six of the world’s major powers (the so-called P5 plus one) reached a historic phased agreement with Iran to limit its nuclear development to peaceful uses. It’s difficult to overstate this accomplishment, which bridges 33 years of broken diplomatic relations between the U.S....

Welcome to the Liberals’ version of the “Hunger Games,” America; unapologetically brought to you by our Progressive friends in the Democrat Party, whose economic policies have lifted a record number of Americans from the middle class and plopped them face down — into poverty...