editorials

If you think you're shopping habits don't really matter, that buying items online instead of locally doesn't have an impact, think again. Local stores depend heavily on support from local residents, and every time you decide to order something online from Amazon or shop out of town,...

Teenagers conjure up all kinds of images in our minds: Strong, energetic, techy, buoyant, independent, impulsive, emotional, adventuresome and ever-changing. They are complex human beings who need care, stability and guidance in their lives to become healthy productive adults.

Nearly four full weeks remain in the 2018 session of the Minnesota Legislature, and it apparently isn't too soon to start prodding lawmakers about getting their work done. On time. And without the mad scramble at the end, the closed-doors meetings, the secret late-night deals, and...

Yes. I'm pretty sure the answer to that headline is "yes". The amount of garbage making its way around social media blows my mind, because the only way it "travels" and is widely seen is through people actually sharing it—because they believe it's true. It's of absolutely no...

When these pages decried the gun violence that killed 58 concertgoers and injured 500 more at the hands of a madman with a "machine gun" in Las Vegas, we said more such tragedies were likely on the way. We only needed to wait about four months. We watched in horror again as panicked...

In today's polarized political landscape, it's sometimes difficult to decipher what, exactly, is happening when a newsworthy event hits the wires. So with that in mind, here are left/right views of what at first glance appears to be good news regarding the Republican-based tax reform...

"It is frankly disgusting the press is able to write whatever they want to write and people should look into it." Those words were not spoken by a dictator of a foreign nation. They were spoken by the president of the United States. Donald Trump made the statement recently in the...

Drivers still don't get it. After drinking too much alcohol, they think they won't get pulled over. They think they're still "good enough" to drive. They think they're not a danger to themselves and others. More proof of that came from a statewide crackdown on unsafe driving that...

Once upon a time there was a jester who longed to be a star. But Colin Kaepernick was sad because although he once did a good job entertaining, Colin was going downhill, just like Jack and Jill - and he, too, lost his crown. Colin didn't like this, and so one day, as the kingdom's...

Add St. Paul, Minn., to the list of cities where fast-food workers are clamoring for a $15-per-hour minimum wage. The Pioneer Press reported that fast-food workers and community allies rallied for a strike on Labor Day. U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison attended, along with mayoral candidates...

There is so much back and forth over whether or not the smoking age should be raised to 21, as city councils in Detroit Lakes, Frazee and Perham contemplate the move. There are some legitimate arguments on both sides, but it does get a little tiring to hear people argue that, "If...

It shakes a person's world when something happens like the murder/womb raiding of 22-year-old Savanna LaFontain-Greywind of Fargo. One of the people arrested for that crime is Brooke Crews, who spent time living in the Perham area. The arrest is fresh—she has not been convicted—but...