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    John Eggers
    JOHN EGGERS COLUMN: A very important question: Where's the bathroom?
    Have you ever wanted to know where the bathrooms were located? Sure you have, and so has everyone else. I try to tell my students when I meet...
    opinion/columns54 min 48 sec ago
    Swift: Have you 'hygged' your home today? Practicing the Danish art of relaxation
    Those crazy Danes. They seem to have it all figured out. One of the greatest foods in the world — the Danish — is named after them. They give moms and dads a combined total of 52 WEEKS of maternity leave. They invented Legos, and they eat an average of 42 sausages a year. No wonder...
    opinion/columns1 hour 5 min ago
    Vivian Delgado
    VIVIAN DELGADO COLUMN: We must support Indigenous youth as they work to protect the environment
    The new year carries over some old concerns, especially in regard to climate change and the protocol regarding how the voices of Indigenous people...
    opinion/columns3 hours 34 min ago
    January 19, 2019
    Commentary: Why progressives should stop avoiding men's issues
    Millions of American men are disconnected from work, children and family; are in poor physical and mental health; suffer from addiction and isolation;...
    opinion/columns18 hours 41 min ago
    January 18, 2019
    Jessie Veeder keeps this card featuring Theodore Waddell's "Gallatin Angus" in a frame beside her bed. Jessie Veeder / The Forum
    Veeder: The way my grandpa sees the world
    There’s a print of a painting hanging in a frame beside my bed that reminds me of my Grandpa Bill. It’s a framed card actually, a watercolor...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 18, 2019 - 3:11pm
    January 17, 2019
    Nicole Phillips, Kindness is Contagious columnist.
    Kindness is Contagious: Kindness helps us embrace humanity
    Have you tired of your New Year’s resolution yet? Maybe you hoped to avoid the feeling of failure by not declaring one. That’s sort of the...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 17, 2019 - 11:47am
    January 13, 2019
    Commentary: This is why the federal government will have a hard time regulating prescription opioids
    This past week, President Donald Trump argued on national television that to end the opioid epidemic, Congress needed to fund the building of...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 13, 2019 - 1:39pm
    John Eggers
    JOHN EGGERS COLUMN: How do you challenge students?
    I recently gave some students I am working with a school interest survey and one of the questions was, "Do I feel challenged at school?" Two...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 13, 2019 - 7:10am
    Kelly Brevig
    KELLY BREVIG COLUMN: The only way of making change is by actually living life
    A new year, new promises, new beginnings, and new opportunities. Hope. All of us want hope; hope that things will be better. Hope that we can...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 13, 2019 - 6:50am
    January 11, 2019
    GENERATIONS: DOUG LEWANDOWSKI: 'He did it!' . . . 'She did it!'
    "He did it!" "She did it!" "I did not!" "Yes you did!" Sound familiar? When we hear these words, it's usually coming from younger children or...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 11, 2019 - 7:30am
    GENERATIONS: ART LEE: We are 'foreigners' of sorts in our own country
    Never, until this past year, have my wife Judy and I ever spent a New Year's eve our entire married life (64 years) when and where there's never...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 11, 2019 - 6:29am
    GENERATIONS: EVAN HAZARD: A multi-talented cartoonist: Brooke McEldowney's comics are a treat
    "Pibgorn" is an online-only, when-Brooke McEldowney-feels-like-it comic: maybe only two episodes a week. Its eponymous star, Pibgorn, is an exquisite...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 11, 2019 - 4:31am
    January 10, 2019
    GENERATIONS: HANK SLOTNICK: Why I like living in a small town
    My sister once said that I didn't live at the end of the world, but you could see it from there. Please forgive her a lack of understanding of...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 10, 2019 - 3:27pm
    Jessie Veeder, Coming Home columnist.
    Veeder: January is a little too good at loneliness
    I sat on the floor in the basement and cried. I cried while my 3-year-old’s voice bubbled and babbled a narrative for her dolls as they navigated...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 10, 2019 - 3:21pm
    Thad Bowman is a volunteer in the Surgery Center at Sanford Bemidji. (Photo by Polly Scotland)
    GENERATIONS: SUE BRUNS: Thad Bowman is facing a challenge by helping others
    Thad Bowman sits inside the Surgery Center waiting room at Sanford Bemidji, watching for the monitor with the list of the morning's surgeries....
    opinion/columnsJanuary 10, 2019 - 2:28pm
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