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Quote of the week
“If you win a Super Bowl before you’re fired, you’re a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.”
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‘All of the above’ energy approch for Minnesota
By Senator Paul Utke
Senate Democrats once again forced through more hyper-partisan legislation, this time focusing on energy. SF-4, which I call the “Blackout Bill,” undermines the goals of energy reliability and affordability, neglects our...
Fitness matters in the outdoors, too
Inside the Outdoors
by Mike Rahn
Sometimes it takes a dramatic event to make us aware of something that should be obvious. In my case, it was a session “under the knife”—and the rehabilitation that followed—that provided a perspective that I perhaps should...
At one time or another, whether you knew it or not, you probably have seen an Ansel Adams photograph. It might have been in a book on photographic masterpieces, or a framed print hanging on a wall in an office, a public building or gallery, or maybe even seen on an Antiques Road Show segment. One...
Minnesota sees first Black women senators
By Panashe Matemba-Mutasa
Mshale Newspaper
The 2023 swearing in of lawmakers who were elected to Minnesota’s state legislature was like no other before. The ceremony, which was held on Jan. 3, saw the swearing in of a Black woman for the state senate for...
Appreciate helping make our community better
We are so impressed by the beautiful and festive planters that have been placed on sidewalks in downtown Staples. Williams Floral and Nursery prepared them and local businesses generously “adopted” the planters.
One of the great things about living in...
Quote of the week
“Newspapers are increasingly
one of the last remaining
businesses whose purpose brings the community together.
Newspapers provide the
credible news and information that is needed in today’s
cluttered media landscape.”
— Dean Ridings,
CEO of America’s Newspapers
Show up and...
Something for everyone in local news
I think the Staples World is the best local newspaper I have ever read. I am always impressed by the articles about our students and the paper does it up brown. I know there are scrapbooks dating back years that include cuttings of outstanding achievements by...
Winter comes in like a lion
Inside the Outdoors, by Mike Rahn
You know you’re a bona fide, qualified, official Minnesotan if the threat of a snow storm finds you with excited anticipation. You don’t quite earn the distinction when you’re young. Young people have self-serving reasons for being...
Quote of the week
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
– Nelson Mandela
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