Opinion
The recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Section 199A passed provides a 20 percent tax deduction to farmer-owners of cooperatives on payments received from their cooperatives.
Corporate grain companies have argued that Section 199A incentivized farmers to sell their grain to cooperatives. However, these...
Ahead of the State of the Union Address, POLITICO released a new report naming Minnesota the second-strongest state in the Union. This is the fourth time Minnesota has ranked among the top two strongest states in the nation in the POLITICO study.
“This ranking affirms what we already know:...
n for National and Community Service, a national study has shown that volunteers who are 50 and older live longer than same age non-volunteers.
Another recent study of Americans over age 60 found that those who volunteer reported lower disability levels and higher levels of well-being compared to...
Housing in small towns would take care of itself, or so I used to believe.
If we could get employment, education, health care and quality of life right, the market would surely solve housing. In many rural areas, I figured, decades of population decline left more housing stock than people....
Last summer, President Trump’s national opioid commission recommended that he declare the opioid epidemic a “national emergency” or a “public health emergency.”
It was my hope that the President would choose the former, which would have allowed for the use of Federal Emergency Management Agency (...
On Jan. 1, legally mandated minimum wages went up across Minnesota. For large employers the rate went up from $9.50 per hour to $9.65 and for small employers from $7.75 to $7.87. The Minneapolis City Council went even further, announcing that employers would have to pay workers at least $10 an hour...
It was early 1968. Since the previous spring Martin Luther King, Jr. had been pursuing a course that for many was unthinkable. He had deliberately connected the dots between the movement for civil rights and the struggle to end the war in Vietnam and had paid the price. He was roundly criticized by...
As we return to Staples-Motley Elementary School from our ridiculously frigid Christmas break, we like to reflect on some of the positives our great school is displaying.
Without a doubt our students’ academic performance both school and district-wide is a mainstay at ISD 2170, but what about the...
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