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As reported in the Bemidji Pioneer, our lakes have a larger than normal amount of algae this year. This could be used to our advantage and allow us to take...

Presumptive nominee Mitt Romney is seemingly fixated on apologies. He's obsessed with apologies like Bristol Palin is obsessed with teen abstinence - like BP is obsessed with clean energy -...

Of all the ways nature has to kill you, drought may be the cruelest. The desiccation proceeds day after punishing day. The afternoon sun pounds the earth like a brazen...

What an exciting play. The music and dance for "Seussical the Musical" is awesome and the actors, choreography and supporting crew are very talented. This play ends the Paul Bunyan...

I, for one, support what Moira Johnson is doing. According to The Huffington Post, Johnson, an exotic dancer by night, has by day been walking around New York City topless...

As I read the Bemidji Pioneer story about the public meeting to discuss parking in the vicinity of Bemidji State University, I was surprised that the university was the only...

I'm writing this in response to a letter (July 15) about gay marriages. I am a student of religion history. I've been doing this for over 40 years. I understand...

The pastor Fr. Don Braukmann in his July 21 letter to the editor wrote he was attempting to clean up the new of the Roman Catholic Church on same-sex marriage...

Tests helpful but not only measuring tool Just ahead of the 2012-13 academic year, the Minnesota Department of Education released student test results from the previous year. Overall, children and...

When Catholic women religious meet this week in St. Louis, they will try to solve a problem tougher than any they assigned to generations of schoolchildren. The nuns will decide...

What does back-to-school season have to do with the recent "contraception rule" from the White House? Hadley Heath, a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women's Forum, points to Pius...

SAN DIEGO, Calif: -- When James Holmes murderously interrupted the new Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, opening fire and killing 12 people and injuring 58 others, it...

I'm Jeff Anderson and I am a Democrat running for Congress in the 8th Congressional District. I grew up in Ely and attended Bemidji State University while serving as a...

Every counselor knows that when someone tells him about the behavior of another, the strong possibility is that the report is correct. But when someone tells him about the motives...

I'd like to frame the current health care debate in terms of the inalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In doing...