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Now that my Carhartt jacket, overalls, hat, gloves, earmuffs, scarf, boots, flannel socks and long underwear are packed away, I am ready to get outside without the risk of literally...

Some of you may have noticed that the Pioneer Journal website got a face lift this week. Similar to the Perham Focus, Park Rapids Enterprise and Detroit Lakes Newspapers, which...

I’ve read once too often how God isn’t present in our public schools. As a teacher in the public schools for 36 years, I can say that nothing is farther...

State Sen. Rod Skoe and Rep. Roger Erikson recently held a town meeting in Park Rapids to discuss Gov. Mark Dayton's 2014-2015 budget proposal and to obtain citizen input on...

The letters expressing fear, anger and self-righteous indignation over any attempt to limit multi-round ammunition clips, semi-automatic assault weapons, etc., continue to show the paranoid, delusional attitudes that exist about...

Be careful out there. Never assume the ice is 100 percent safe and don't think it's always "other people" who fall through the ice. This winter has been a deadly...

Guns don't cause death and violence. People cause death and violence. When there is a shooting, the gun is always held by a human being. Our country guarantees a basic...

The God who made everything out of nothing (Genesis 1:2) also wrote on stone tablets the Ten Commandments and gave them to Moses on Mount Sinai (Exodus 20:1-17). They are...

It is nearly the end of February, the "Monday of months," I read somewhere. It's the month of my birthday and Groundhog Day - both fall on the same day,...

Pre-Labor Day school starts and photo cops: I stand firmly against each of these proposals and continue to voice my concerns at the Capitol. The Labor Day issue is a...

In his state of the union speech, President Obama said that we can't cut our way to prosperity. His idea is to tax and spend our way to prosperity. It...

Don't look now, but more economic trouble looms for the nation in less than two weeks. Unless Congress suddenly gets responsible, automatic spending cuts totaling $1 trillion over nine years...

Zebra mussels, Eurasian watermilfoil and other aquatic invaders are causing enough problems on lakes in Douglas County. Let's not add Asian carp to the mix. That's why we were glad...