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Why so much tragedy and violence? The first thing my 96-year-old father said to me when I walked in the door to his house last week was, “Why do so...

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...

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...

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...

Every winter as a teenage boy I would venture onto frozen Wing River near my parents’ Otter Tail County dairy farm west of Bertha and Hewitt. I would sit for...

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...

Scandinavians have always been fond of both woodcarving and music. These talents met in Knute Reindahl. Born in Telemark in 1858, his father died when he was just three years...

Simon, our nearly two-year-old Golden Retriever puppy, got through the winter. He not only got through it, he “defeeted” it. If you are unable to find socks in our local...

Question: What is the law concerning funeral processions? I see them once in a while and some drivers pull over, some mix right in with the funeral procession. I just...

My guess is that you are like me – you are glad that the daylight is longer, that the sun is stronger, and that the ice and snow are finally...

Jens Hanson was only 9 in the summer of 1873, when a relative from America was visiting in Valders. The visitor, Rev. Ove Hjort of Paint Creek, Iowa, asked Jens’...

As I was gathering information for the Northern Minnesota Veterans Home Task Force, I discovered some interesting facts about American Indian service members. First, they serve at a higher rate...

The Final Five started Thursday night without Bemidji State. I’m stating the obvious: This is the last Final Five in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association as we know it, and...