editorial

"There should be a lot of mail this morning," said My Favorite Reader over the last cup of the early pot of coffee. Any time it's a long weekend thanks...

"While they help us get on line...and informed, librarians don't try to sell us anything. Nor do they turn around and broadcast our problems, send us spam or keep a...

Doesn't it just frost ya when you're driving down a beautiful, scenic highway or a picturesque country road and someone throws a pop can or pizza box out their window?...

This may not be important or even interesting and if manners and politeness and respect are of little concern to you, feel free to skip the next few paragraphs. They...

Those first early years You know spring is here when the invitations for graduation and weddings begin to arrive. It makes a person wonder what to give as a gift...

It seems the late Bill Balsiger gets the credit. This was back in the early 1970s. At that time he was living in the Twin Cities and got the idea...

Call it socialism if you like, but one benefit of the new health care reform bill which took effect this week has anyone who has ever handled Medicare Part D...

Saturday will be a good day to sample the outdoors, weather permitting. Saturday is National Get Outdoors Day, and Minnesota is celebrating by opening free of charge admission to all...

Cheers: Consolidating three Bemidji School District programs -- Bemidji Youth Learning and Working, Alternative Education Canter and adult basic education -- under a single roof downtown, with room for expansion,...

The Bemidji City Council made a turnaround on Monday in deciding to restore $18,000 to the city budget to help maintain parks. It was a good decision, one that should...

Use of the Internet has become more and more a convenience of shoppers, as shown by the whopping Internet sales figure on Monday. But the high use also makes consumers...

A generous Bemidji community came through again by raising $406,703 for the United Way of Bemidji Area. The annual fall campaign fell short of its goal of $417,000, but still...

Once again this Thanksgiving I'm asking everyone out there to support our men and women serving in the military with messages from home.

Cheer: Gasman honored as friend of arts Greg Gasman, who has defined himself as an actor/grocer, has been chosen from numerous nominations as the 2009 Bemidji Community Arts Center Friend...

Last week, plenty of ideas for health care reform were presented at a Bemidji forum on health care, hosted by state Sen. Mary Olson, DFL-Bemidji. Many of them made sense,...