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    June 23, 2019
    Suleeqo Nuur, a Somalia native who graduated from Pelican Rapids High School in 2016, chats with Minnesota Department of Education Commissioner Mary Cathryn Ricker at the Pelican Rapids Friendship Festival on Saturday, June 22. Mike McFeely / The Forum
    McFeely: No signs of bigots, but plenty of friendship at Pelican Rapids festival
    PELICAN RAPIDS, Minn. — A band played Somalia's national anthem in Sherin Park in this small Minnesota lakes country city on Saturday, June...
    opinion/columnsJune 23, 2019 - 7:30pm
    Tammy Swift, columnist. The Forum
    Swift: I've mastered the Scotcheroo. Here's how you can, too
    Today, most people call them Scotcheroos, but in the Swift household they were known as Rice Krispies Bars. In our family, the Rice Krispies...
    opinion/columnsJune 23, 2019 - 8:15am
    JOHN EGGERS: Do you have a summer bucket list?
    Most people have a bucket list of some kind. It may not be written down but they have in their mind some things that they would like to do before...
    opinion/columnsJune 23, 2019 - 8:02am
    June 17, 2019
    Pelican Rapids Press editor Louis Hoglund wrote a scathing satirical column after a person posted an Islamophobic comment on the newspaper's Facebook page.
    McFeely: Pelican Rapids newspaper pushes back on bigotry
    PELICAN RAPIDS, Minn. — To be clear, it was one bigot who prompted the Pelican Rapids Press and managing editor Louis Hoglund to respond with...
    opinion/columnsJune 17, 2019 - 8:39pm
    June 16, 2019
    JOHN EGGERS COLUMN: True story of a WWII B-17 combat mission
    100 percent graduation A local movement is underway to ensure the area has a 100 percent high school graduation rate. The current list of supporters...
    opinion/columnsJune 16, 2019 - 8:13pm
    VIVIAN DELGADO COLUMN: Protecting Chaco Canyon and other sacred places
    With the climate change movement and environmental sustainability awareness, sacred places come to light and many become the center of discussion. I would like to focus on Chaco Canyon, which is found near Bloomfield, N.M., in the northwest part of the state. The United Nations Educational,...
    opinion/columnsJune 16, 2019 - 7:45pm
    June 13, 2019
    GENERATIONS: Evan Hazard: After a winter's homework
    While you are reading this, if all has gone well, I'm at a United Methodist Church Summer Theology Workshop at the Koronis Assembly Grounds on...
    opinion/columnsJune 13, 2019 - 10:55am
    GENERATIONS: Tony Nicholson: The great fire sale of 1949
    I know many people, both men and women, who have expressed the desire to run away from home when they were little. Even my wife made such a threat,...
    opinion/columnsJune 13, 2019 - 10:53am
    GENERATIONS: Doug Lewandowski: Whatever comes your way, it's still a vacation
    This winter was a little on the long side, and it seemed to begrudgingly give up snow and ice for warm temperatures. Snowbirds this year played...
    opinion/columnsJune 13, 2019 - 10:50am
    GENERATIONS: Hank Slotnick: Tearing corners off $20 bills
    When I first moved to Safford, Ariz., with Mary Lou in 2001, I always introduced myself as Jerry Sterr's son-in-law. Why? Because even though...
    opinion/columnsJune 13, 2019 - 10:14am
    Monte Eidem stocks shelves while volunteering at the Bemidji Community Food Shelf. Submitted photo.
    GENERATIONS: Sue Bruns: Retirees give back at the Food Shelf
    Retired nurse Jan Lund tours me around "the floor" and the back room at the Bemidji Community Food Shelf. Jan has been volunteering regularly...
    opinion/columnsJune 13, 2019 - 10:05am
    June 12, 2019
    A farmer works a field northeast of Mt. Vernon, S.D. Matt Gade / Forum News Service file photo
    Commentary: Down on the farm, core values grow
    Along with the rise of women and the expansion of civil rights, the most important social transformation of America's first quarter-millennium...
    opinion/columnsJune 12, 2019 - 10:34am
    June 9, 2019
    Jim Shaw
    Shaw: Gay conversion therapy is legalized torture
    FARGO — Shame on Minnesota Senate Republicans for killing a ban on gay conversion therapy for minors and vulnerable adults. That discredited...
    opinion/columnsJune 9, 2019 - 10:00am
    JOHN EGGERS COLUMN: What can we do to be less violent?
    According to data from the Gun Violence Archive, a total of 115 mass shooting incidents have occurred as of May 7. It doesn't seem like it...
    opinion/columnsJune 9, 2019 - 8:10am
    Kelly Brevig
    KELLY BREVIG COLUMN: There is hope, and we all can make a difference
    When a stone is thrown into the water, the ripples are far and wide. As far as the eye can see, there is a movement where all was once still....
    opinion/columnsJune 9, 2019 - 6:30am
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